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Bada$$ old dudes: 
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Yep, they are cool. We had one on our street. We addressed him as Mr. Ed. Survived WW2. Marched his way through Italy. He passed 3 years ago. Always walking our street with his pipe. Funny part is his pipe was always upside down. He would tease my girls and say he was going to swipe their bikes or ask for a peanut butter/jelly sandwich. Cool guy. Anyway, his story to me one day concerned transporting a superior from the rear to the front lines somewhere in Italy. He was driving a Willys Jeep. As they neared the front the superior could hear "plink...plink,plink, plink." To that he screamed, "They are shooting at us." To which Mr. Ed said, "What do you expect we are in a war zone." He said he just kept on driving to the front and the superior was ducking behind the Willy's dashboard. Last time I spoke with Mr. Ed was when he fell in his backyard. Pipe went one way and his slippers the other way. I was riding by with my daughter and seen him fall. I picked him up, brushed off his pipe and sent him inside to his wife. He was quite disoriented in is twilight years.