@adsactly @greenrun - I wish more people actually read the story instead of blinding posting comments as is evident by many typical comments.

Loved the story and especially because I too had a professor called Ben, who at that time was in his late 70s, but a legend in his own right. Don't know if he's still around, but the sharp mind and the sense of independence shown by your protagonist reminded me of him.

Of course, I first though it was a mistake in the story when I noticed that the professor was searching for the car in the school's parking ground while the driver was dozing off in front of the supermarket. REalised my mistake as I read on.

I suppose the symptoms depicted in Ben are of Azheimer's (a sad degenerative disease that my aunt too has today) - the hardest part is watching alert smart people lose their memory and eventually their sense of their own self as the time passes by...

Thanks for the story, it was wonderful, and will follow you for more!