At 80, Gramp was unsteady on his feet. He didn’t want his nurse’s help, but waited ‘til she was gone, then stumbled to the bathroom.

He fell and broke his hip.

He died in the hospital two weeks later.

They say he died from pneumonia.

I say it was embarrassment.

Harry Demarest has had twenty of his 50-word stories and a few longer pieces published. This is a true story which happened to Harry’s grandfather in 1966.