Two elderly men who can't sit still at home

This week, having spent the last few weeks with my wife, children, my mother, and stepfather, we decided to give my stepfather an assignment to keep him busy. The poor old man has been accustomed to working and has never been idle, even after retiring in the past decade or so. He is known to always tinker with wood, nails and assorted tools fixing this or that, and now, he had to simply sit still for most of the day, thanks to the strict Covid-19 measures.

Several kilometres away, in Kiambu County (but within the Nairobi metropolitan area), my octogenarian grandfather was driving my grandmother crazy because he had decided he had had enough rest and was going back to work.