ernestine fell over today. all the residents laughed.

ernestine often hollers for help for no reason. we've said for years that she's the little girl who cried wolf, and one day she'd fall and no one would go to rescue her.
so today, the dining room door was closed and a few of us were in there doing whatever we needed to do, when one of us went out the door and heard her hollering. 'oh, ernestine,' she muttered, and went over to the elevator to see what was wrong. the door was closed, so she pushed the button, and there, lying there in her wheelchair which had tipped over backward, was ernestine. 'oh my gosh, ernestine!' we heard.
karol and i went rushing out there, as the other employee hollered for the nurse. she came running and told us ernestine's nurse needed to be called immediately, so i called upstairs while the nurse and the first employee moved the wheelchair. as we were taking in the situation, we noticed, hanging from the top of the elevator door, ernestine's curling iron.
anyway, so her nurse came down and checked her out. she asked ernestine what happened and she said 'i think it tipped over!' ernestine was just fine. when her nurse told her she had to be careful, ernestine hollered at her. 'i'm always careful!'
many of the residents saw this all happening. and when they saw that she was fine, knowing what she's like, they were greatly amused.

so here's our theory. ernestine sometimes brings her curling iron with her on the armrest of her wheelchair. this time, the cord got stuck in the elevator door. as it got pulled up as the elevator went down, she held onto it, thinking someone was taking it from her. in holding onto it as tightly as she did, her wheelchair tipped back and she tipped over. i guess this means that next time she hollers we have to listen.