People say it’s nice to retire. I s’pose some folks have a hankering to say that, but I find retirement boring. I have an RV and boat I never use. Instead, I sit around, bullshitting with my friends down at Shop Side about how I’d use my boat and RV.
The new owner at Shop Side makes me pay for my coffee and bagels. Kaley never did, but things change in life. Prices for crap are high, much higher than ten years ago. I can’t believe the things I’ve seen come and go in my lifetime. There wudn’t no TV when I was born, and I didn’t see one until 1949.
I must have been somewhere’s around twenty. There were cars, but we never had one. Believe it or not, I’d walk to school in the dang ole snow. We all did.
I’d quit school in the eighth grade and worked the fields. I’ve common sense and an incli
