The sensitive flower fiance left the house and wouldn't come back in except to eat, then ran out of the house again after dinner (I swear he was holding his breath.)
It gets better - he's a psychologist.
And, I'm sure, a fourth-hand smoke victim in the making.
The horror.
LOL, If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be comical.
SAN PABLO -Mary Christian lived long enough to see the turn of two centuries. Born in Massachusetts in 1889, she arrived in San Pablo with her family in 1900 when the city was just a settlement with nameless streets, a place she once called "a little town with a lot of work."
Christian, who was certified as the longest-living American in November, died Sunday at the Creekside Healthcare Center in San Pablo after a bout with pneumonia. She was 113.
Described by those who knew her as a woman far ahead of her time, she was independent and strong-willed almost to the end, said her niece, Marge Parks, noting that Christian chose to live alone until 1992 and then refused to live with family members to avoid imposing on their lives.
Parks recalled trimming and polishing Christian's fingernails and cutting her hair during her visits to the center. Up to a month ago, Christian was still alert, though she would have occasional hallucinations. In her lucid moments, she could remember relatives' birthdays and anniversaries.
"She'd say, 'I don't have anything else to do while I'm here, so I just keep thinking about dates,'" Parks said. "She made up her mind that she was going to be 114, but I guess she didn't quite make it."
By the time she was officially recognized as the oldest American, Christian was bedridden, nearly blind and had trouble hearing. She seemed to relish the spotlight, recounted early childhood memories to reporters and said it felt great to be recognized as the nation's oldest.
After hearing news reports naming someone younger than Christian as the oldest American, two of her relatives independently started to search for documents establishing her birth date. Their work was validated last fall, and Christian made it into the Guinness Book of World Records Web site.
"It felt real good for her to have her acknowledged and recognized," said her great-granddaughter Sharon Hanney of Martinez. "That was a very important thing ... to be recognized as the oldest living American meant something for her."
Christian held a number of jobs during her working years. She worked at the Van Amden Chocolate Co. labeling cocoa cans and making candy until the 1906 earthquake leveled the company.
She was the third telephone operator for the Pacific Telephone Company in Point Richmond and went on to work at the Standard Oil cafeteria and for Harry Alberts at the Annex, a dry-goods store that eventually became Macy's. She was the department store's elevator operator until her retirement. She worked as a nanny until 1971.
She married O.R. Christian in 1907. They had two sons before they divorced in 1922. Before her diet was restricted to soft foods, Christian was fond of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Twinkies.
"She had a nice, long life," said her niece, Rita Rinna.