Today I had to take my father for his epidural injections to his lower back.  He has a compression fracture, probably due to the manual labor he did most of his life.  The injections relieve the pain for a few months.  
    My dad also suffered a minor stroke about three years ago while vacationing in Greece, so he has trouble doing things with his left hand.  When he gets into the passenger's seat, he needs help with his seat belt.  
    When we finished up with his injections, he wanted to go through a drive-thru to pick up some lunch.  We stopped by my house, because my 12 year- old was home sick.  My dad wanted to see him and give him lunch as well.  
    As we were finishing up lunch, my dad started talking about his waist size.  He proceeds to tell me that he has a 29 inch waist.  I told my dad that is the length of his pants, not his waist size.  My mom started to laugh, because my dad is probably a size 44-46.    Then my dad asks me to get a measuring tape to verify his waist size.  Once I measured him, he accepted the fact that he wasn't a size 29...he said that is probably the length of his pants.