Reading Notes 2: 'The Landlady and Me' by Taro Yabe

This is not a book, but a comic essay. It was popular about ten years ago. This is a re-read. That was when I first realized Taro Yabe was a comedian (lol).
Yabe-san encountered a rather rare property where the landlady lives on the first floor and he rents the second. The landlady is an elegant 86-year-old woman. It's not just Yabe-san who is renting, but I think the landlady also has a lot of nerve to let a man in his 30s live there.
Anyway, once Yabe-san started renting the room, the landlady would bring in his laundry if it rained or invite him over for tea. Yabe-san is kind for accepting this while being bewildered.
Thus begins his interaction with the landlady. It gets sad when the landlady talks about the war and post-war periods or the sadness of an elderly person losing their physical abilities, but as she gets used to Yabe-san, it also turns into surreal humor.
Living with parents who are about the same age as the landlady, there were many parts I could relate to.
But it would be nice if young people could rent rooms from elderly people like this, wouldn't it? Like, it's cheap, but it comes with a grandma or grandpa.
Well, in the case of this property, it was also because it was a two-family house specification where the bath and toilet were separate.
A little lonely, but heartwarming. How about it as a companion for the long autumn nights?

★Bonus Mother Care Diary★
Yoshiko-chan (Mother, 83 years old) cut her finger with a sickle while trying to weed. It was a small wound that only needed a bandage, but she had the same kind of wound in the same place two weeks ago 💧
Does she forget, or does she lack strength in her hands?
And she forgot that she had already cooked rice for dinner and cooked it again.