Catterly never pictured himself going out this way; standing in some godforsaken heat sink, clad in the official old man's uniform of big-butt cargo shorts and a Tommy Bahama Hawaiian shirt, guzzling white wine...
Not that Catterly is in imminent danger of checking out. He's just miserable about having to leave his Montana farm to winter in Arizona. But his wife Gracie has put up with 45 winters up north and he acknowledges she is due for a change. Doesn't mean he has to like it.
Things get more, well, interesting, when he catches another old codger cheating at gin. Thomas DeVito does not take it well. And DeVito, as it turns out, is a retired Mafiosi. The other retirees say Catterly is now in danger and he has to apologize. Our hero doesn't see it that way. You might say the threat of death gives him something to live for...
Nicely written and amusing.
