LONDON (Reuters) - British pensioner Joseph Dickinson, 103, had a shock when his local hospital called him in for an eye test and told him to bring his parents.

"I must be getting younger, in fact much younger," he told his local paper, the Hartlepool Mail.

Joseph Dickinson was born in 1899, but because the hospital computer only read the last two digits it mistook his age as just three years old.

"It was a clerical error," a spokesman for City Hospitals Sunderland told Reuters by telephone from northern England on Tuesday.

"I think he was quite amused when he was explaining to the consultant at the hospital why he couldn't bring his mother and father with him."

Reuters

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