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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in posing the question: can the senior residents of an Independent Living facility be satisfactorily entertained by a man using sticks to pound on what was once part of a 55-gallon oil barrel?
If the facility is Vista West where the keeper and Phyllis live and the man pounding on the barrel is “Bahama Bob” the answer to the question is a resounding “YES!”
Explaining the origin of the “Steel drum” by islanders where surplus oil barrels had been discarded, Bahama Bob effectively demonstrated that something good can come from pounding on something, a fact everyone in Bob’s very senior audience could doubtless apply to their own lives in some way.
The keeper, for example, recently pounded on the arm of his recliner at TV reports of the most recent political idiocy. His pounding would be more effective, of course, if he had access to any part of an oil barrel, and he intends to talk that over with Phyllis.
Photo by Bill Stokes