The Retirement Thread

[ebikeerwidnes]

I have a new set of hearing aids

Fancy ones - they connect to an App and everything

Just spent a while wondering why I seem to be getting occaisional messages over them saying

"You left the tarck by 60 m"
and
"go straight on for 80m then turn right and stay right"


which is damn weird when you hear it loud and clear
and no-one else can

bit like going mad - probably

anyway - after a lot of looking through manuals

and wondering if the neighbours coming back just as I first heard it was relevant or not

I found an app on my phone that I must have installed ages ago that was happily trying to direct me somewhere

and had decided to start about 30 minutes ago after not having said anything all afternoon!!!



anyway - I have uninstalled it!!

 

[Dave7]

I am out for a stroll, blimey its warm. I put a lightweight jacket on, mainly for somewhere to put ky phone but it really is too much.

 

[numbnuts]

A strange one that. When you are at school or working then Monday is the 'start' of the week but as you say Sunday seems to be the traditional 1st day.

When I was working Sunday was another working day,
I just changed my hat to a security guard working down the docks

 

[Drago]

Blimey! I am getting seriously outnumbered on the start day of the week front!

If I was a fragile Millenial or Gen Z I would be having a persecution breakdown!

I think I have just followed school > college > business as being a Monday start day with retirement being no different.

I just checked with Google and the following came up...

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Itll be a cold day in Hades before I agree with AI.

 

[Dave7]

When I was working Sunday was another working day,
I just changed my hat to a security guard working down the docks

Which docks were they ?

 

[BoldonLad]

Even when I was growing up in the 60s, there was much less cars. We used to manage to play football and tennis on the road in the village I grew up in and it was often at least 30 minutes or more before we had to stop for a car.

Similar here. When I was 11 (1958) there was one person who owned a car, in our street of 80-100 houses. My father got his first car (Ford Popular 1954 model) when I was 14, ie 1961.

 

[Dave7]

I meant to report earlier. I had bramley apple and pirk sausages, mash, with mushrooms, onions and nice thick gravy. TBH I did too much but was a brave boy and battled on.
Sat on my porch now, very peaceful.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Similar here. When I was 11 (1958) there was one person who owned a car, in our street of 80-100 houses. My father got his first car (Ford Popular 1954 model) when I was 14, ie 1961.

I think my dad got his first car when I was around 5 (so 1961, too), it was an AC Petit 3 wheeler. Soon replaced with an Austin A45 Farina (hatchback was a big novelty) and then in 1965 we went all posh with an Austin 1800 (Land Crab) for a whopping £923 new.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I am out for a stroll, blimey its warm. I put a lightweight jacket on, mainly for somewhere to put ky phone but it really is too much.

Very warm and muggy here now the day is almost over.

 

[Drago]

Trying to rain here.

 

[BoldonLad]

I think my dad got his first car when I was around 5 (so 1961, too), it was an AC Petit 3 wheeler. Soon replaced with an Austin A45 Farina (hatchback was a big novelty) and then in 1965 we went all posh with an Austin 1800 (Land Crab) for a whopping £923 new.

It is interesting (well, I found it interesting), in the 1990's I was working in former USSR and Ukraine. One of my work colleagues (a Russian, called, unsurprisingly Yuri) was about the same age as myself. Outside of work, there was very little to do, and, we spent many hours drinking some illicit alcohol concoction, in a local bar, and, discussing our respective childhoods. Yuri's experience of improved living standards was remarkably similar to mine in that the upturns occurred at roughly the same time, (although at no point, was his standard of living as "good" as ours). I will not comment on what I thought about this, in case it breaks the "no politics" rule.

 

[numbnuts]

Which docks were they ?

Southampton, We took over (well Reliant Secuirty did) from the police I was there on that day, there was a lot of resentment by the police to us as they had been doing it ever since the docks was opened.
The turn over by the guards was very high and although I was only working at the weekends, I had the longest service and senior to all of them

 

[Dave7]

Southampton, We took over (well Reliant Secuirty did) from the police I was there on that day, there was a lot of resentment by the police to us as they had been doing it ever since the docks was opened.
The turn over by the guards was very high and although I was only working at the weekends, I had the longest service and senior to all of them

WoW, really interesting that. As a kid the Birkenhead docks was our playground. The docks were busy with foreign ships then. It was fascinating.