No pro like an old pro
Grandad June 17th, 2011
At least once a day people arrive here looking for “the pros and cons of getting older”.
I started pondering that subject again last night having replied to a comment saying that I can be grumpy if I want to.
The single thing I enjoy most is the freedom. From birth I relied on my parents and had to answer to them. Then I started school and had to answer to them as well as my parents. Over time, I left home, but by then I had a job so had to answer to my employers. In all those years, my life wasn’t 100% my own. I couldn’t dress exactly as I wanted. I couldn’t take off on a holiday if I wanted. I couldn’t even have a lie in if I wanted.
Since I retired, all that has changed.
For the first time in my life, I have total freedom to do what I want to do, and when to do it. I don’t need anyone’s permission. Fucking sweet!
If I wanted to, I could climb into the car right now and head off to the West for a weekend away. Except that it’s raining and I don’t want to. And that is the point – I am not going, because I don’t want to and not because some fucking jobsworth at work says I can’t be spared.
If I wanted to, I could wander around all day in the pelt. I grant you that that does lead to the odd sideways glance when I nip [sic] down to the village for baccy, but that’s their problem.
I go to bed when I want to, and I get up when I want to. If I decide to spend all day in bed then I shall.
No one can even dictate if I write this or not. It is my choice, and if I want to stop then I wi
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and I have my wife’s permission to do so.
If Kris Kristofferrson knew you he would have written a song about ya! Anyway I know how you feel mainly because the only person who would employ me is me! Saoirse abu!!
TT – I thought you shipped her to the UK? Or did she manage to find her way back?
Notgreen – Even the self employed don’t escape as they have to answer to their clients, as I discovered.
Sometimes (but not often) I HATE you.
Smug git !!
I’m in a similar position GD. Grand isn’t it? Only problem is nobody just “NOBODY” in this town I live in appreciates that we might not be up at 8am. If it isn’t reversing trucks delivering to the local shops it’s that stupid woman in the house over the back of ours letting her fucking yappy dogs out in the gargen, my next door neighbour rattling bottles ready for the recycling bins collection or the binmen themselves hauling wheelie bins around.
Har har! Yet another pro for being old – I can easily piss people off by being smug.
If it’s any consolation, I got here by way of many many years of hard slog, sweat and abuse. I am entitled to be smug.
Sean – Move to the country. There is no need to be in any particular spot now? I agree about the morons though. All work/phone calls/deliveries and the like should be banned until such time as we are up and about.
and if I want to stop then I will forget what I was writing in the first place….
What about your European Overlords. You have to bow and do as they say…..They know what’s best for you.
I dream of being free, you lucky bastard, you lucky lucky lucky bastard.
Us modern Serfs in a World of EU/IMF Overlords will never be free.
It kinda brings you back to “Ireland unfree, will never be at peace”.
Here we fucking go again.
Cat – There is that. There are some downsides to getting older…..
Brianf – Fuck them. I break all their petty rules, regulations and laws at every available opportunity.
Slab – Don’t worry. Your time will come. In the future they may up the retirement age to 90, but you’ll get there. Eventually.