Really?

My father-in-law is 87 years old. And he lives alone since the death of my mother-in-law five years ago. He is active but grumpy. He sees what needs to be done but has no motivation to do things.

So every so often he hints at what he wants us to do for him. Like cleaning out the pantry. Or cleaning the guest bathroom. Or taking more of Granny's clothes to shelters. Lately, the hint is for his kitchen cabinets to be thinned of excess pots, pans and dishes.

My brother-in-law and his wife came over to Grandpa's house last weekend and decided to save the old man from his filth. They cleaned his shower.

Now understand that Grandpa does not shower in his house. He usually goes to the gym or to the golf club to shower.

The shower definitely needed cleaning, it had last been cleaned before my mother-in-law died.

Grandpa's statement was, "It looks too purty to shower in now."

He also told us that the cleaning duo would be back the clean the rest of his bathroom the next day.

We laughed to get a call from the cleaning duo the next evening, regarding the state of the house Grandpa lives in.

We have tried for the past 5 years to get Grandpa to move in with us and let us go through the house to clean and sort items for sale or trash, but it is his stuff and we respect the fact that he can do what he wants. He knows we are there should he need us.

So it was hilarious to us to find someone else having a fit about what Grandpa will not let them do in HIS house. Where have they been for the last 5 years??

Apparently, the cleaning duo tried to clean out his refrigerator - he may have barred them physically from touching the refrigerator.

They tried to clean out the medicine closet - he shooed them away from the bathroom.

They wanted to clean out the kitchen - he told them Joan was going to help him with that.

Gotta' love him - he knows what he wants and sticks by it!