Terry Prone: My pal's brief stint as a private eye didn’t last long

I knew this guy from when he was doing something completely different — and was gobsmacked when he told me he had trained to work as a private detective

'You going to be tracing unfaithful spouses?' I asked. 'Sitting in your car in the dark and peeing into a water bottle?' Picture: iStock

You might think that it’s a bit late in life for me to be hiring a private detective, but my take is that it’s never too late to embark on new adventures. Or so say the experts in growing old, who are mostly younger than the people they’re lecturing, but we older folk have to rise above that along with so much else, and we do. 

In my case, this included hiring a private detective and no, I will not share his name.