Is it Real, or is it Memorex?

I come home to find the folding chair out, propped at the foot of Ethel's bed - NOT where it was when I left. "How'd this get here?" I query.

"Linda and Patsy came to visit today," she informs. Unexpected company could be real, or it could be invisible friends. She seems sound today, so I'm guessing today the company was real. I'll call Linda in a bit to see.

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Linda confirms that she and Patsy came by to visit. Patsy used to be a chronic smoker. Though she has quit, it is only after having come down with emphysema. Patsy has just had a "medical thing" related to that, and Linda's up to visit her during recovery. She hopes to visit Ethel again on her way out of town on either Thursday or Friday. (edited to remove ambiguity @ 5:50A 18Mar2009)

"Not Friday," Mom says. "Ethel has a doctor's appointment on Friday."

Of course.