Adopt a Grandfriend
Meet Frank
Get to know Frank before you make the commitment of a lifetime (or at least a monthly subscription).
"Frank" Franklin Shimizu
90 years old
📍 Pacific View Senior Living, San Jose, CA
Monthly sponsorship
$60/month
📋 About Frank
Frank spent 35 years as a software engineer and still reads tech news, loudly disagreeing with most of it. He holds the Pacific View record for fastest completion of the Sunday crossword and has been very clear that this is a serious record.
Frank's Story
The following is a transcript of Frank telling their story in their own words.
“I worked at IBM in 1971 when a computer was the size of this room. Now they put a computer in your POCKET and it can't even do a proper spreadsheet without crashing. Don't get me started on apps. Every app wants my location, my birthday, my firstborn child... In my day we just wrote code in FORTRAN and we LIKED it. Anyway, let me show you how to make an origami crane. You take a square piece of paper, fold it corner to corner, then you fold it again, then you open the flap and squash fold, then you... wait, which flap was it? I've made two hundred of these and I still... hold on, let me start over. You take the paper and you...”
— Frank, 90 years old
💬 What Frank Says About Having a Sponsor
“Since receiving letters from my grandfriend, I've folded 200 origami cranes for good luck. The nurses say my room is 'very full of paper birds.' I say my room is very full of good luck and they simply cannot see it.”
🧡 Adopt Frank
⚠️ Liability Agreement & Assumption of Risk
By adopting Frank, you acknowledge and accept full personal liability for any and all damages, disruptions, or consequences that Frank may bring about to their environment as a result of this adoption. This includes, but is not limited to:
- • Property damage from competitive board game incidents
- • Emotional distress caused to other residents via superior bingo performance
- • Unsanctioned facility redecorating or furniture rearrangement
- • Excessive storytelling leading to missed meal times
- • Thermostat-related conflicts
- • Any and all feuds, rivalries, or "incidents" that Frank may instigate
- • Mysterious disappearance of communal pudding cups
Adopt-A-Grandfriend, its affiliates, partners, and the nursing facility assume absolutely no responsibility for the actions, opinions, competitive behavior, or general shenanigans of adopted grandfriends. You adopt at your own risk.
⚠️ Important Notice: Adopt-A-Grandfriend is a sponsorship program. By participating, you acknowledge full liability for any and all damages your adopted grandfriend may bring about to their environment. This includes, without limitation, interpersonal disputes, competitive game-related incidents, unauthorized craft projects, and strongly worded opinions about the weather. We love our grandfriends, but we cannot be held responsible for them.