97 is a very respectable age. There is a man in Indiana, who is 112 years old and still is working as a mailman. He was caught doing something illegal - changing his birth date in his driver's license so that he'd be only 104. When a cup asked him about the reason for this misdemeanor, he responded that he's planning to get married and since his fiance was only 90, he was worried that the difference in age. will be too great )