What do you do during the day when you’re 95 and in pretty fair health. Maybe your bones don’t want to play golf and you can’t do all that you used to be able to do.

If you’re George Doubek, of Lehigh, and you’re 95 like he is, you keep your mind busy having fun that doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg.

Doubek, who turned 95 on March 10, loves to spend his time in the gaming parlors in Lehigh. And he spends most of his days taking the rounds at the gaming places throughout the community.

“I’m having fun,” he laughed., “I come in here with so much money and if I lose, I lose, if I win, then that is great fun.

“But I am not doing to bad,” he laughed.

Not doing too bad means he is able to collect several gift cards which are paid out instead of money from the gaming parlors.

“They make great gifts to my family, I buy groceries and other things that I need and my doctor says what I am doing is good for my health,” he said.

His daughter, Felicity McAlister, who friends call Lis, takes care of her father at her home and has done so since her mother became ill.

“I was a nurse so I know I can take care of my dad. My mother has passed away and the doctors have told us that if Dad keeps his mind occupied like this, it will keep him healthier than if he just sits at home or lies around and does nothing,” she said.

Doubek’s a really nice guy and has lots of friends. He has made new friends by playing the machines in the different game rooms around town. In addition to getting to know the people who run these gaming rooms, he has met friends he has not seen for years.

“That is fun to see some of these people again,” Doubek said. He is a bright-eyed, slender man and doesn’t look 95, just five years from being 100 years old.

The people in the gaming businesses have come to like him so much that they all had surprise parties for him on march 10. There were candles, balloons, you name it and doubek was enjoying it all.

He has been living in Lehigh now for three years with his daughter but had lived for years in North Shores, outside Fort Myers, where he and his wife came to Southwest Florida to retire and build a house.

He is a retired sheet metal fabricator from Jamestown, N.Y., and has been retired for more years than a lot of people have worked. Add his years in retirement and you get 30 years.

His daughter said he retired in 1980 and her mother, Rita, and her dad came to Florida.

“I could take care of my parents in my home. I am a licensed practical nurse and I had no interest in having them put in a nursing home. I can take care of my dad now that my mother had passed away,” McAlister said.

“Les is a good daughter. She takes me where I need to go and we come to the gaming rooms every day of the week except for Saturday when we go to St. Rafael’s Catholic Church for Mass.

Doubek’s stay starts out with breakfast and then by 10 or 10:30 a.m., he dressed and ready to head out to have some fun. He spends most days at the gaming rooms in Lehigh until around 4 p.m.

“I get to eat here; they have food like hotdogs and drinks and they’re fee. You can’t beat that and enjoy yourself, too, especially when you win,” he laughed.

At the Jackpot Junction where he was found one day last week at noon, he was sitting at his favorite machine with a hotdog along the side and some chips and a drink.

He was patient enough to answer questions but he was anxious go set to playing his favorite machine. And his daughter also plays them machines until her day says he is ready to go.

“It keeps his mind active, and that is what’s important, and he loves it,” his daughter said.

Dad chimed in: “Fun? Oh yes, I epically like when I win. I come prepared to lose but if I win, it’s a bonus,”

“I don’t get upset if I don’t win. It’s all in fun and I enjoy myself. My advice to others my age would be go keep your mind active, enjoy something like this. It works for me,” he laughed.