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At The Assisted Living Facility Turns, the residents have been enjoying their Christmas Day meal on Christmas Eve.  The usual bland fare has been replaced by ribs, chicken, ham and prime rib.  Salads with full slices of cucumbers, and larger than usual chunks of tomatoes.  There's fresh mac and cheese, green beans, asparagus and several types of desserts.  It is a real feast, and yet some of the residents are still unhappy.  What they wanted isn't available on the buffet table.

Which seems strange to the President.  Because there was a meeting earlier in the month, to which all of the residents were invited; where the Chef asked people what they wanted served at this meal.  With the sole exception of strawberry pie, everything that anyone asked for, is there on the table.  If people didn't get to the meeting, they have no room to complain that they didn't get what they wanted.

The rumor mill regarding the specious allegations that the odor of cocaine can be detected outside the President's room seems to be dying down.  But with the Facility Director being away on vacation, some are wondering why her boss is here, in her office.  Maybe she's just covering for her.  Maybe there's something more nefarious afoot.  At least that's what someone wanted to imply.  It is untrue.  The Facility Director has worked for this company for some time and her boss is just here keeping an eye on things while she is away.

A new complaint has been brought to the President.  One of the residents engages in an obsessive/compulsive behavior and it has reached the level of annoyance in the eyes of some.  It isn't like he's trying to open room doors, as a former resident with serious dementia used to do.  She actually went into the President's room one night as he watched television, but left immediately when she saw him.

This resident's compulsion is chairs.  Specifically, making sure that chairs are properly positioned at tables once whoever was sitting there has left.  He will finish eating in the dining room and then on his way out, will straighten out every single chair between where he was seated and the doorway.  Even if it means crossing to the other aisle after he finishes the first one.  Since pushing the chairs in makes a lot of noise, people are complaining.  The President plans to discuss this with the Facility Director upon her return, but there probably isn't much to be done.