My 89 yr old grandfather reads the newspaper from front to back every single day. Now of course he’s reading a small-town paper, but still! Every word! (even the classifieds and the lost dog ad’s…all of it, he knows all the town news!) He then spends the majority of his day’s reading books. He can go through about 3 a day sometimes. He watches 1 hour of the news on TV every single day at noon. Then it’s back to reading. So his day goes “newspaper, read, news, read read read, sleep”.
He’s almost completely deaf in his old age and screams and yells in order to communicate. My grandmother begs him to get a hearing aid. NO GO he says. He does not want to “look” old. (smirk)
However, a few years ago his eyesight started to go wonky and he immediately visited an eye doctor and scheduled in cataract surgery asap, within a week both eyes were done. When asked why he won’t get a hearing aid but he’s willing to allow doctors to cut his eyes, he replied with his typical scream:
“Because damn it I need to see to read and if I can’t read I don’t care what anyone has to say!”
My grandfather is my hero.
Haha. I can’t wait to be old.