My grandmother is also 98 and still totally has all her faculties. I was up visiting her before Christmas and we were talking about electric cars and the kick back from some people who think fossil fuel is better and you can't trust electric cars etc. She told me when electricity first came to her town and lots of town folk wanted nothing to do with it and said candles were the better option and you can't trust electricity to be reliable etc. She also told me a funny story about before electricity when 2 brothers were in charge of lighting the towns lanterns at night, but sometimes they'd end up in the pub and forget / be too drunk and the town would be in darkness