Rookie
About 1:30 yesterday afternoon I found myself at Lowes, having an all beef hotdog with mustard, onions and relish from the hotdog stand by the exit doors. Now these puppies, you understand, are mighty hard to resist because they are so gooooood. I've seen some folks go there just for the hotdogs without ever entering the store.
By tradition, you eat your hotdog while sitting in one of the white wooden rocking chairs lined up in front of the store for sale, being careful, of course, not to drop any mustard on them. So, there's a string of us old codgers roosted there like birds on a power line, eating our dogs. And, they are all looking at me! I am, it seems, not a lunch-time regular.
Before long the conversation brings out the question again, "What do you do?"
This time I'm prepared. "I'm retired! Want to see my AARP card?"
"Morning person or evening person?"
I'm not prepared. "Well, I've gotten up at 5:45 am for many years, but since my retirement I've been sleeping in until about 7:00. Sometimes even later. So, I guess maybe that makes me a morning person."
"Son", the eldest codger retorts, "until you KNOW whether you are a morning person or an evening person, you ain't retired."
I felt so ... inadequate not knowing and not knowing that I didn't know that I needed to know.
Rookie.
Think I'll take a nap and study on it.
By tradition, you eat your hotdog while sitting in one of the white wooden rocking chairs lined up in front of the store for sale, being careful, of course, not to drop any mustard on them. So, there's a string of us old codgers roosted there like birds on a power line, eating our dogs. And, they are all looking at me! I am, it seems, not a lunch-time regular.
Before long the conversation brings out the question again, "What do you do?"
This time I'm prepared. "I'm retired! Want to see my AARP card?"
"Morning person or evening person?"
I'm not prepared. "Well, I've gotten up at 5:45 am for many years, but since my retirement I've been sleeping in until about 7:00. Sometimes even later. So, I guess maybe that makes me a morning person."
"Son", the eldest codger retorts, "until you KNOW whether you are a morning person or an evening person, you ain't retired."
I felt so ... inadequate not knowing and not knowing that I didn't know that I needed to know.
Rookie.
Think I'll take a nap and study on it.
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