ninety-five

“Eight hundred ninety-five new Floridians are arriving each day,” Martinez said.

Then he sat down in his black leather chair, considered his move for ninety-five seconds, and played his knight to his king bishop’s third square.

If Vern was ninety-five years old, he must have been scuba diving and teaching into his eighties.

And no one there seemed very interested when Jim declared, “We can drive down the prices by ninety to ninety-five percent.”

When the clock tips over on him, his son observes, “When you’re ninety-five, and Father Time literally knocks you to the ground, don’t you think he’s maybe trying to tell you something?”