I am a skeptic

Yeah, I am a skeptic. Things that sound too good to be true usually aren't true. Sometimes I could maybe use a little more belief I admit though.

90-year old very talkative man at the ER tonight, called me over to chat, well, thinking I was the other volunteer, first he told me I am also attractive - I think it's cute when old men do that, in a non-creepy way - but older (the other volunteer I usually work with just graduated from college), he says, oh not by much, but a few years, I can tell. It's true, I was impressed right away, he was very sharp. He didn't have a whole lot of clothes on, I was wondering the whole time whether I should put a blanket over him, but instead, just decided to listen. He told me about a tree whose bark will cure all cancers and a backpack that will once make people fly. I was a little skeptical, but he swore he read about all of this and it's been proven. He mentioned my skepticism and said it could be useful in some situations. Then he told me about himself: he's a composer, music scholar, orchestras around the US play his symphonies. I was smiling and nodding, being a little skeptical, although i had the feeling he is with it completely. He could tell and at the end, as I was about to leave, he said in a playful voice: I bet you don't believe a word I said.

So I checked his name tag and voila, he's a famous composer and his works have been played all over the country, including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. I gotta trust people a little more sometimes.