He was walking towards me when I stopped to ask, “Want a bottle of water?” He told me, “Naaah, I’m headed to the hospital.” I asked if I could give him a ride and he pointed towards Nashville General, “It’s right over there – the doctor said I should walk to stretch my hip out, I broke it.”
He later went on to explain that he broke it by getting his foot tangled in a wire that was on the ground, “It got all tangled up and I fell on my hip.”
I asked, “So how old are you if you don’t mind me asking?” He looked at me and said, “60.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” ― H.L. Mencken