Age

We had another version of magically changing age tonight. Dad is currently 87, but this didn't make any difference in his musings. The most accurate age he got was 86, which is how old he said he was for about 1/2 hour.

For a while, Dad's parents were 101 and he was 86. His parents alternated between being alive at 101 and having lived to be 101, then died. His parents really lived to be 82. At one point, Dad's father was still alive, having retired at 101.

Dad got stuck on the age 101 for a while. He was 101 now and had just retired.

Then for a while, Dad was 65, having retired very wealthy at 65. The reason he was so wealthy was that he had been president of the company and made a lot of money. He invested the money he made in the stock market and become rich. He invested so well in the stock market that he continued to get enough dividends during the Depression to stay rich. He said that he made $3 1/2 million by investing at the "BOTTOM" (shouted) of the stock market. He used that money to buy a farm in East Texas, then struck oil on his farm.

Dad's father was an amazing man. Not only did he storm the beaches of Normandy and live to be 101, he never completed school, but still managed to be come a lawyer and was president of "the company" before Dad was.