grumpy old men.

For those of you who don't know, I currently am at an agency that serves Holocaust survivors and the general population of elderly poor in a specific part of Brooklyn.

The other day one of the interns, Cory, went into our director's office to give his weekly report on his caseload and clients. One man that he's been working with for a number of months now is 99-years-old, about to turn 100 soon. Cory, who has been trying to get a big birthday celebration together for this man, asked him if he would like media involved too. The man replied, "Oh, the media just came last week to interview me!" This story is better if you know Cory and his facial expressions...but it was something like a "What? Ummm...okay?" kind of a face. He was confused about this and wasn't sure if his client was telling the truth or making stuff up. So when our director heard this story, she hopped on Google and looked up the client's name. It seemed to be a common theme recently for our clients to end up in the news for cute stories or survivor profiles.

And indeed, Mr. Pulwers was in the news. For getting into his first violent fight ever a the age of 99. Poor little Mr. Pulwers was the victim though, an innocent man trying to do the honorable thing of telling his soon-to-be-beater to not block traffic with his car. In turn, he got a metal steering-wheel lock smashed against his face. And the threat of having his balls cut off. All in Russian, of course.

Ridiculous.

Watch the video below for the story:


Gersh Gofman is not one of our clients.