My 60-something daughter joined my parents' life #23 Is Dad a local celebrity?

Going for walks and shopping with my parents, the three of us, is an important daily routine.

My mother has started using her walker more than I expected.
Or rather, she loves it so much now that she can't walk without it.

It seems to put less strain on her knees, and her posture while walking has improved too.
She seems to enjoy the walks themselves, stopping to look at flowers along the roadside.

In the middle of such walks, we often hear a voice from out of nowhere,

calling out, "Mr./Ms. [Name]!"

Since [Name] is also my last name, I can't help but react.
Is it just a habit of mine to answer "Yes!" whenever my name is called?

Even though I answer with a cheerful voice, it has never once been for me.
It's 100% for my father.

My father chats for a bit, and then tells me, "That was Mr./Ms. So-and-so." No, that's impossible.
I can't remember them all.

Moreover, it's not rare for him to be called out to about three times in a single walk.

The other day, I took my mother to the barbershop, and the owner knew my father through another customer.

Just how many acquaintances does he have?

I couldn't help but retort in my head.

Furthermore, my father sometimes initiates the conversation himself with a "Hello!"
When I watch, thinking they must be acquaintances,
"That was someone I talked to for the first time," he says,
which happens quite often.

As someone who is a bit bad at communicating with strangers,
I can only think, "Wow."

He also gets a lot of LINE messages. In terms of numbers, he probably gets way more than I do.

There have even been times when he'd just get home, only to receive a phone call and head right back out again.

He really is "amazing."

He is 91 years old.
Please, keep giving me reasons to call you "amazing" from now on.

The elderly + elderly + early elderly, we're managing somehow again today.