The Joy of Being Retired

[Phottoman]

Working people frequently ask retired people what
they do to make their days interesting. Well, for
example, the other day I went downtown and went
into a shop. I was only in there for about 5 minutes
and when I came out there was a cop writing out
a parking ticket

I went up to him and said, "Come on, man, how
about giving a retired person a break"?

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket.
I called him a "Nazi."

He glared at me and started writing another ticket
for having worn tires.

So I called him a "doughnut eating Gestapo."

He finished the second ticket and put it on the
windshield with the first. Then he started writing
a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes.

The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, I didn't care. I came downtown on the bus
and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a
bumper sticker that said "Sam Brownback in '08." **

I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm retired.
It's important to my health.

[Darkbob]

Heheh... Love it.

Once when I was in training for cross country track back in the day I went out for a jog. I took along a pocket full of quarters and jogged behind the guy in the little 3 wheeled car. Every time he would stop to hand out a ticket I would jog up and pop a quarter in the meter. He could scoot past me easy enough but he couldn't get far enough ahead of me to fill in a whole ticket before I came jogging up with quarter in hand.

By the end of my run the guy was nearly purple and shaking with rage.

Never had so much fun for $5 in my whole life. 100% true story.

--DB