Funny Prayer about Getting Old - Home Instead
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With the timing of a professional comedian, this diminutive "little old lady" shines a very funny light on the foibles of aging, to the delight of an audience filled with senior-care experts.
A friend of the couple who founded Home Instead Senior Care, Mary Maxwell was asked to give the invocation at the company's 2009 Convention. Initially it seemed like a normal prayer, but it soon took a very funny turn. Her deadpan delivery and lines like ...This is the first time I've ever been old... and it just sort of crept up on me ... had everyone rolling in the aisles.
For more of Mary's unique view on aging, check out her video blog on CaregiverStress.com:
www.caregiverstress.com/voice/...
Find out more at www.homeinstead.com.
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She speaks beautifully
I love this lady !
She should take this show on the road.
Bless all the elderly , especially Miss Mary Maxwell, comedians take note this is where your career started
what a wonderful wonderful lady. Truly Grand Dame. Hope I'll be as witty as she is when I grow to be 72. Another 12.5 years
She's AWESOME!
Mary YOU ROCK!!
All I can say is Thank You!
just when i started thinking about getting old.Awesome laugh and true.
Wonderful... this lady is so charming.... and FUNNY
Brought a tear to my eye.
Hilarious. God Bless Mary and Home Instead.
I'm 85 been through that stuff looking forward to what is going to happen in the future. Very funny stuff hope she keeps passing this stuff along. Bob B.
i love how she does this without any expression at all!!!!!!!
I´m 50 years old ToDay, I already know what she is talking about. Just loved this post!
I Volunteer at an old folks' home each week. Then recently I fell and broke 3 ribs and now have someone coming in every second day to shower me and clean the house. I thought I understood how the oldies must feel in that home. But now that I have spent three whole weeks in their shoes I have a better understanding. And thank you Mary for making my ribs ache with healing laughter!
I love the way she delivered her prayer. It may sounds funny but hearth warming truth about growing old. Blessed are you.
fabulous! im a cna at a nursing home and i know all shes talking about! good job!
She has great comedic timing--total deadpan--absolutely perfect
What a joy! She hits the nail on the head.
@chamles Yes, Mary has great wit and a great attitude to go with it!
As I wake to get older each day, I look in the mirror and thank God that He has a since of humor!
Madam you are absolutely delightful and I just ask the Lord I might get her spirits when I hit her age. Such wit and joy! All the very best to you all!
this is what I am talking about, it is really good, blessed are the seniors everywhere!! Merry Christmas!!
She is just as cute as she can be!!
I love old people.
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant !
Fantastic and Funny
Way to go Mary, I am sure you're an inspiration to a lot of women..
I needed a good laugh. I hate to say this but I do know a few things she is talking about. Like going to work and someone telling me I have two different earrings on. I can't tell u how many times someone has told me I have lipstick on my teeth. It is a wonderful thing that someone can make being older funny. She knows how to deal with getting old.
That hilarious and simply excellent!
Absolutely marvellous. Thank you for sharing.
This literally had me falling off my chair laughing. Her deadpan style is precious and her joy for life is truly apparent. This perspective is the only one to have as we gain in years - and of course in wisdom... :-)
Love it! Bravo!
😂😂😂😂 I absolutely and thoroughly enjoyed her "prayer"!!! Thanks for making my day a lot brighter!!!! 💗💗💗
OMG, she has great timing and all too accurate description of those of us in the aging population and the foibles we face.
Awesome for us aged!
OMG this is to funny, I love it!!
Not only is the delivery that of a pro, the writing is top notch as well. It just goes to show you're never too old to discover your inner comedian. Beautiful.
Her wonderful humour of reminded me of Erma Bombeck - this was wonderful to watch -- it made my day..... Thank you for posting.................now..... where's that post button again?...
This is WONDERFUL! Thank you for posting this.... and thank you, Mary, for your great sense of humor! God bless!
This was incredible! Mary is so very sweet & witty. I loved the wine comment :-)
It's great to see I'll be among other like- minded seniors when I arrive at the doorstep of old age and that there might be room, at a table of them that can still laugh, for me to join in. thank you for sharing this wonderful footage.
BRAVO!!!!!
Hilarious! Love this! Love humor! Thanks for the laughs!
Such a beautiful and exquisite way of looking at aging - with honesty and good cheer. For old age is one life's greatest gifts. The idea that you develop, mature, and evolve with this complex blueprint called the universe. That your acceptance of your growing old reveals that you are significant and ineffably beautiful.
Funny Prayer about Getting Old at the Caregiver of the Year Dinner So funny and sweet :)
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Mary Maxwell hilarious old lady.Bless her heart !
wonderful, good for Mary
THE ORIGINAL MAXINE!
Wonderful.
Mary, you should be a comedian!
She's KILLIN' IT!!! I drove into the wrong end of a car wash recently ....and a friend of mine also looked down at my feet recently and said, "Why do you have two totally different shoes on??" I'm screaming with laughter over here. She may not have the "Moves Of Mick Jagger" but she's killin' it!
I so needed this at this precise moment! How utterly awesome and uplifting. It does place things in perspective, yes?
Epic.
This is so awesome!
what cracks me up is people really think she's 72 and weighs 145 lbs. That's part of the joke. I'd like to know how old she really is, but, of course, that would be rude to ask!
Awesome,i loved this so much,you rock Grama :)
GREAT !!!
Such a wit!
The hair...OH DEAR GAWD THE HAIR IS ATTACHED!!!
Oh my god...was fixing to click off thinking this is just another just like any other prayer....then she reeled me in with"uh uh oh I'm sorry God, as long as I have the microphone".... and when it came to the "it's the first time I've been this old... well, I'm all in and thanks! This made me laugh my head off!
you're so lovable!!!
lol oh arch bishop im so srry
GOOD THING THE ASIAN CULTURE AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS RESPECT AND LOOK AFTER THE OLDER GENERATION
Great!
Witty lady!
@MrKungfu2 Just because her deadpan humor lacked vulgarity, profanity, or otherwise off-color humor doesn't mean that she wasn't funny. I personally found her to be quite entertaining, and rather hilarious. Please allow me to ask you, fellow KZread user, does it really suck to be you?
Oh my how i laughed
ended a professional comedian
lmao.jerry seinfeld should be taking notes..to funny
comedienne :)
LOL :-)- I found myself nearly sharp enough to predict many of her punch lines- but i failed in response to the bishop's 'are you coming- - home- - w/ me' - i thought perhaps she might have quipped - 'depends upon your vision and driving skill'
after seeing this im certain i dont wanna get old
God bless you, AMEN. ROFLMAO
Dear Mary, Interesting: Thank you Mary Maxwell: I wish & praying for you! take care: if you have time kindly refer the Scripture: Psalms 90:3-10 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Sincerely, In Jesus Christ and his grip SERVANT Paul A C Abraham,
Is this really the mother of Bill Gates??????
TOO LONG BUT FUNNY
what a wonderful wonderful lady. Truly Grand Dame. Hope I'll be as witty as she is when I grow to be 72. Another 12.5 years