640 effing million

I'll give you that one, since I'm sure you'd help out a fellow Pennsylvanian had that happened.

 

11.

 

I don't define retirement as taking your pension and/or social security. What I consider retirement is the awful mindset that once you hit an age, you are are afforded the right to sit in a lawn chair in a sweatbox state and vegetate. (Of course you have the RIGHT to do this, but You know what I mean...)

I probably shouldn't use the word selfish because it has negative connotations, but I don't believe we as humans are meant to stop being productive, to ever stop helping, to ever consider ourselves a finished product.

Too many people think the age of 65 means they get to vote against school levies because they don't have kids in school anymore, protect their own self interest above all else (AARP) and hold back their expertises and skills from the world because of their age. The world needs the knowledge of elderly people. withholding it is a sort of secular sin in my eyes.

 

Brian, you're 27. In 23 years, you'll have different views on retirement.

 

If Paseana would have won, he would oWn jOO

 

I understand what you're saying, too, Brian. But like Versatile said, your views on it will shift a bit as idealism fades into realism.

As the clock ticks toward 65, more and more, younger people start treating you like you're Stephen Root in "Office Space." So going to a warm-weather state and vegetating is better than fire-bombing the office.

 

No doubt. Let me be young and stupid for a while!

Plus, growing up in a family of butchers my arteries will be clogged and the question of my retirement will be academic by the age of 55. I regret no choice I ever make that includes bacon.

 

It makes me sad if this is what you think retired people do with their lives. It is certainly not the way any of the retired people I know live.

 

I believe you, but it's certainly the way a great many of the retired people I have known live.

 

I've known too many. One a bottle of boubon and self-rolled cigarettes his only companions for decades. I've also met retired people who are shining examples. I just don't wish to be the former.

I think being given the gift of unlimited time is like being given substantial lottery winnings. It will magnify your flaws. I don't trust myself with the option of just sitting around all day. I'd go into disrepair. In my mind I'd read, help out at a shelter or school and be a joy to all in retirement. In reality, I'd probably drink whiskey, count down the hours until Jeopardy came on and write angry letters to the city council. I don't want to be that guy.

 

Such a clever guy Drip.

 

Yeah, he waited all of 66 seconds to trick us.

The only thing that lasted less than that was BYH.