h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Happy birthday to Batty's mom!

don't tell.. she's getting ever closer to that senior discount </>

so you don't see shopping as retail therapy, ?

my kind of gal

"don't tell.. she's getting ever closer to that senior discount "
]JingleBat]

Yeah, well, so am I. Already some cashiers see my gray hair and ask if I qualify for it. I have to be honest, if a bit shaken.

I don't wanna be old!

you don't want to be old? oh, but I do .. I want to be very old! in sixty years time from now!

i want to take early retirement, be well off, well fed and well drunk and keep all my bodily functions plus be in full control of them

the rest

"i want to take early retirement, be well off, well fed and well drunk and keep all my bodily functions plus be in full control of them. the rest" [Pierce}

Your eloquence and candor are refreshing, Pierce.
May I adopt your plan? You seem to be onto something good.

maybe i should patent it?

that way i would surely become rich!

but yes, paul h, since you pointed out this brilliant option you can adopt it for free

It's a brilliant plan, true, but the is in the details. Getting enough years of service in before you retire early means that you had to have started work when your mother was going for pre-natal couseling . Okay, that isn't something you can do retrospectively. Plan B (which I've tried to implement) is to pump money into supplemental retirement income projects like Individual Retirement Accounts or Defined-Contributions plans. Yes, they sound icky (and they are), but who would want to be old, feeble and destitute?

*nods sagely* I see your point.. that splains my working all the in' time..

That's right, JingleBat. You have an edge, though, because you use creative methods for your leisure time. Having an expansive penthouse (and the services of Guido), and a pet chicken who teases the dalmation next door, and a Prince Charming who's there for you when you've gone through a rough patch, helps keep you going.

i am lucky to have had colleagues with enough foresight to establish deferred annuity assurance many years ago. i have been paying 15 percent of my vages to that for 30 years now - but knowing my luck i may weLl be run down by a 42 ton truck the day before i retire

you can always sell the ship of you really need to, Pierce?

or collect empty bottles?

"knowing my luck i may weLl be run down by a 42 ton truck the day before i retire " [Pierce]



But suppose the trucks are running off the road into my house?

most accidents happen in the kitchen - and we men eat them

most people die in their beds - prolly after eating...

"most people die in their beds" .. mm yes.. usually after meating a partner with a better condition

At least they die happy..

To be really happy, I would prefer tolive, not die.

one thing to do then.. make sure you're in top condition