8.

Before I retired, I left my apartment in the daytime only because I had to be at the factory at seven-thirty in the morning to begin an eight hour shift stamping pickle jar lids out of sheet metal.

Now that I do not have to be anywhere during the day, I stay inside most of the time, never going outside until it is dark. I do not even go out to shop for groceries. Bernie gets what I need when he goes to the store, once a week, and he picks up small odds and ends for me at the Korean deli on the corner of 48th Street and 9th Avenue.

I am especially fond of those tiny Cuban bananas they sell along 9th Avenue, tiny little things, they are, and much sweeter than the usual size banana.

During the day, I stay inside, dozing and listening to phonograph records which I have bought at the Salvation Army. I have about two hundred albums, all in excellent condition.