Allison, throwing my 2cents in.....
Your father may feel younger associating with this young girl....
This young girl may think your father is filthy rich and she will be happy to help him lighten his bank account.....
This young girl may be a perfectly sweet , nice young girl who thinks of your Dad as a friend and may think he reminds her of her Grandfather who she loved very much.
There may be nothing to worry about but I would ask your Dad not to sign any papers. I would go so far as to suggest a third party accompany them on their dates or whatever they do. In other words he should never be alone with this girl. If it is all innocent, no harm done.
My guess is that the 91 year old man has that typical male clueless response to a nice kid - sees friendly as girlfriend friendly. I've know at least three women whose style was so outgoing that most men would think it flirting. One was the most conservative, long-time-married woman I've ever met.
My own news is that I broke my leg on Thursday - a real break not just the tiny fracture kind of thing. Was doing too many things at once with my adult DS while also walking down a flight of stairs. The last step and I parted ways. It's not the worst thing to happen; should be all over in about six weeks. But, 'tis a bit awkward on crutches for the moment.
Shame it didn't happen a few months later, Bill, rather than now & after the snow melted. You could shrug and mutter, "Skiing accident," which always sounds very dashing. But there's always "thrown from my horse," which is good in practically every season, and would fit in with your Downton Abbey passion. Or "fell out of a deer stand." Or "took a bad spill on my mountain bike." But no, I sense from your posts that you're an upstanding, truthful person, and willing to tell stories on yourself. So I'll just wish you a speedy recovery. All that healthy eating has to do something for us, doesn't it?
Oh, and I am so not getting caught up on my hurricane-postponed writing projects by lingering here ... All forums and such develop an incredible fascination for me when I have a long document to rewrite.
Ouch Bill! Sorry about that. Years ago (when my now 21 y/o dd was a toddler), I was carrying her down the stairs in one arm and my then dachshund in the other. I fell and managed to rescue the dog and the dd, but my foot was killing me. Dh was out of town so I managed to get myself to urgent care. They took an xray and didn't see a break so put me in a boot. Four weeks later when I still couldn't bear weight, I took myself to a specialist who took an xray-- and said-- yep--it's broke. Wonderful. It was healing at that point so it was never casted and it doesn't cause any pain or problems.
Lately my great dane has been bounding up the steps when I go up with the dachshund. She (the dane) can't go down gracefully-- more like a giant slide-- our steps are steep and wooden-- and the dachshund can go up but not down, so I have to carry him down. More than once she has almost taken us both out so I'm trying to remember to make her go down the stairs first so we don't all kill ourselves!
Oh, ouch, Bill! I hope it heals well (my Mom, when she broke her leg--also on the stairs--should have had surgery to fix it, but didn't and it healed very crooked and she never could walk properly again).
saef~this is quite uncharacteristic of my Dad.
bargoo~my Dad has gone so far as to open a 2nd checking account to hide from my brother and SIL who manage his other one. He told my sister about it and my sister told me. He said it was so he could have his own spending money without a thousand questions from my SIL whom he considers meddling. He's well off enough financially as he has hardly any bills, but he's not filthy rich by any means. And he does do some stupid things with his money. (For instance he has a life insurance policy that, due to his age, has a huge yearly premium. I believe it was $14,000 for a policy that will pay out only about $50,000. My brother and SIL want to cancel it, he wants to keep it. Only thing is, if he lives longer, he'll have paid out more than the benefit will be and he just doesn't see that.)
Gary, I read your post on FB about not being able to go to church and sit in "your" pew. Sorry you can't go to church, but when you do go back, be sure to sit in your pew and don't get yourself into the mess my Dad is in! (I don't think Angie would like that!)
