["Hyper" doesn't even begin to cover it. The stories he has...]

[He speaks through gritted teeth.]

Yes, it most certainly is. It's as if they're blind to the fact that someday they'll be my age, too. Blind, or in denial.

I suppose the one good thing about this city is that I might actually make it through a week without being called "old man".

[Sometimes his frowns teeter on the brink of a pout... but I wouldn't tell him that.]