What Retirement .???

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

What Retirement .....???

The Mrs gave me a ' list ' of jobs to do ...this is how it goes...

Make the Beds
Wash up after Breakfast
Empty the 2 rubbish bins in the kitchen
Sweep the floor
Vacum the carpet
Sweep the front and back steps
Mow the front and back yards
Put the Council Rubbish Bins out every Thursday night
Do the Washing ( hers and mine )... then hang it out on the line
Take the washing off the line when its dry ... fold it neatly and put it away in its right place.
Feed the 2 Rag Doll cats.
House hold dusting....
Water all the Plants around the house....including the veges garden.
Make dinner before she comes home from her work
Wash up after dinner....

and on and on and on.....

I told her....you'd wanna be careful...I might get pregnant .....

Poppy.....

[RickS (Rick)]

That's making me think I should stay at work forever

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Originally Posted by RickS

That's making me think I should stay at work forever

+1

[Kunama]

Welcome to my world Poppy !!!

[UniPol]

Is that all? That's only the warm up

[xelasnave]

Feed the cats for sure but that other stuff you have gotta be kidding.

Until you live alone you do not realise all the jobs that do not have to be done.... ever.

Smash your hand in the car door and relax with a liquid pain killer of your choice.

Start drinking hard liquor before breakfast and you will get through this need to work in retirement.

Alex

[PCH (Paul)]

You probably haven't noticed that she's been doing all that as well as going to work for the past 40 years or whatever

[Kunama]

We have an understanding, she works and I spend, works for me, she's not so happy. Just do one job a day Poppy and take care of the ticker....

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by Kunama

We have an understanding, she works and I spend, works for me, she's not so happy. Just do one job a day Poppy and take care of the ticker....

Is she for sale ....

[glend (Glen)]

I'm with Alex, living alone takes all of that stuff off the list, what list. Do what needs to be done when it has to be done and relax. I see so many old men that are just miserable, and most of them have a woman telling them what to wear, what to eat, what to say, etc etc. No wonder men die early.

[raymo]

Love this thread. I'm even worse off; on top of all the jobs, my wife hates my hobby with a vengeance.
raymo

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by glend

I'm with Alex, living alone takes all of that stuff off the list, what list. Do what needs to be done when it has to be done and relax. I see so many old men that are just miserable, and most of them have a woman telling them what to wear, what to eat, what to say, etc etc. No wonder men die early.

.... why do husbands die before their wives ....??

... because they want to.....

Poppy....

[xelasnave]

Its ok to just wear underwear around the house and you dont need pyjamas, waste of time.

Going shopping put on some shorts but dont change the t shirt.

Beware however many females are on the lookout for escaped males. Not ironing your clothes is a dead give away that you live alone.
Cultivate a look that borders on homeless but remember some like that and insist you follow them home. Dont fall for that even if it means forgoing a free feed.

Dont comb your hair or shave that keeps them away mostly but the clever ones figure you are on the loose and will have a go at trapping you.

Constantly count change so they write you of as poor... if they suspect you may have cash and start a conversation ask for loan of fifty bucks to buy some speed because you are hungover from a weeks drinking.

Tell them you would give them a lift but you dont like having passengers in a stolen car.

Once they catch you they domesticate you and train you to think you can not live with out them, heck you cant stay drunk for more than a couple of days without them complaining that you need a bath.
But for those of you living in captivity be respectful and sober otherwise they will leave and for whatever reason that never seems acceptable.

Goto go I am drying my boots in the micro wave.

Alex

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

Its ok to just wear underwear around the house and you dont need pyjamas, waste of time.

Going shopping put on some shorts but dont change the t shirt.

Beware however many females are on the lookout for escaped males. Not ironing your clothes is a dead give away that you live alone.
Cultivate a look that borders on homeless but remember some like that and insist you follow them home. Dont fall for that even if it means forgoing a free feed.

Dont comb your hair or shave that keeps them away mostly but the clever ones figure you are on the loose and will have a go at trapping you.

Constantly count change so they write you of as poor... if they suspect you may have cash and start a conversation ask for loan of fifty bucks to buy some speed because you are hungover from a weeks drinking.

Tell them you would give them a lift but you dont like having passengers in a stolen car.

Once they catch you they domesticate you and train you to think you can not live with out them, heck you cant stay drunk for more than a couple of days without them complaining that you need a bath.
But for those of you living in captivity be respectful and sober otherwise they will leave and for whatever reason that never seems acceptable.

Goto go I am drying my boots in the micro wave.

Alex

Alex ...you should write a ' book ' on how to stay a single male .....
Be a best seller.....

Col....

[glend (Glen)]

I have had old women try to chat me up in Supercheap Auto, they know where to look. I guess i need to take some of Alex's good advice. It doesn't help living in an area with lots of retired people, all the married women are on the look out for stray males for their friends. Where were these women when i was in high school?

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Originally Posted by glend

Where were these women when i was in high school?

At the front gate ... you just didn't know it ....

Col.....

[Shiraz (Ray)]

had the same list Col.

wife is retired - nothing much changed - still got the list.

[xelasnave]

The times I go to the pub and in no time some one introduces me to someone or they come to the table asking about something or other.

I am sure I have I little sign on my head "nutters line up here"

And my mate (when I had the sail boat) would say "he lives on his yacht where I work"
but his house is at....... He lives there and up North on 200 acres.

Heck the boat was a wreck, the house and land not in my name but the impression had them hanging on every word.

They would even buy me drinks... what does that tell you.

I mean when you are over sixty and a girl is half your age how can anyone be so stupid not to figure it out.

So one of them tells me how her boy friend hates me and she has to leave him knowing full well I control an empty house at.......

Or the one who set my up to fight her brother. He was ready to go until I told him I just had a hernia opp. I could have hurt him but she reved him up I had to give him a way out.

Yes I could write a book truth is stranger than fiction.

Alex

[bugeater (Marty)]

You need to write a book Alex. I'd buy a copy.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by bugeater

You need to write a book Alex. I'd buy a copy.

Thank you Marty but I think books where folk rattle on about their life in the belief others would find it interesting, are something I just dont get, they are beyond me. Its sad enough I bore the members here really.


I do enjoy telling my father the stories and he seems to enjoy them.
Alex