Saturday, February 5, 2011

Why Working At A Nursing Home Is Like Playing Animal Crossing

Yes, strange but true, working at one of these places is similar to the popular Game Cube videogame in a number of ways.  Everyday you come in and at least one of the residents have forgotten you and you have to tell them your name over and over again. They have odd mood swings you can't follow and little quotes they tend to repeat and their emotions are seemly unrelated to anything you do but are directed at you nonetheless. Sometimes you arrive at your town and someone has moved away and you'll never see them again, and although you might feel kinda down about it or just indifferent, nothing has changed and new residents soon come in to take their places. And if you visit a different town, the residents act in the same patterns and everyone gets everthing they own from a Tom Nook clone.

Okay, maybe they're not similar in that last part.