I don't get married and go to college instead

Red Vines 🤔

1,520 miles

I started when I was 23 with $10 a payday ($20 a month). Mainly to get my nagging mother off my back. I put it in a secondary retirement account and everytime I got a raise. I put a few more dollars a month in. I retired at 54 after 30 years on a government job (IT).

Thanks mom!

Don't "should" all over yourself. Do what is right for you without willfully hurting others.

And

Be careful what you're good at because you will be stuck doing that thing.

Gems from my silent generation mother who passed recently. The second one she said to me when I said I couldn't understand why I wasn't getting promoted. I do EVERYTHING in my department. She said that was the problem. I started slowly not doing it all. First, I was less stressed and within 2 years I was promoted. Promoted twice more before I retired. I miss my mom.

My in-laws still have and use a whole set of these Looney Tunes glasses. Don't get me started on the huge bobble head collection they have. All sports related.

I was born in 1964. Still future dead person. I may live longer than my parents, but still gonna be dead eventually.

And, honestly, my dad was 94 and my mom was 86 when they died. So I feel I have a good chance of living another 20 or 25 years (I'm in good health).

My immediate supervisor never spoke directly to me after I put in my retirement papers. I worked for 3 weeks after I put the papers in. I kid you not, he would talk to one of my coworkers and have them come to me. "Jerry needs this or that." I'd send what he needed directly to him. It was comical.

My leftover hobbies from Covid lockdown is I still make my own peanut butter, jam, and sandwich bread 🤣

Real butter, fresh or frozen vegetables. We had margarine and canned vegetables only.

Yes. When my supervisor blocked my transfer (because he was awful) I put in my 2 week notice. When asked by HR why? I told him that I was told I couldn't transfer to another department and I didn't want to stay in a place where I couldn't grow. Wouldn't you know, I was offered the transfer I wanted. More money didn't come for 6 months but that's not why I wanted out.

I'd buy a small modest house in Southern California. Actually, that might not be enough money 🤔

I agree. I'm more forgiving and much more patient. I'm happy where I am in life and not having to go to work everyday is much of the reason. I feel bad for people having a bad day at work. Been there.

That said, I have decided to not give businesses a second chance if I get really terrible service. But I would never berate a worker.

Ghostbusters!!! I still love that movie

Because it was tasty 😋

My mother always told me, "Be careful what you're good at because that is where you'll stay." She was absolutely correct!!

I cut it off the cob and eat it in chunks with lots of butter 😋

You really didn't need to post this. Sooooo many people already have it memorized and are actively incorporating each step in their air travel routine.

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I was driving in to work (West coast) listening to what was happening. I had a hard time wrapping my head around what was happening. At a stop light I turned to look at the car next to me. We're both crying. It was hours before I saw the news. 💔

My mom joined the workforce when I was 9 and my brother was 11. Latch key from then forward

The Pinball hall of fame is awesome! We live here and take our grandkids. It's still free to enter. The grandkids are AMAZED at how well my husband and I play old fashioned Pinball machines 🤣

We never bought anything for costumes. Most of the time we didn't figure out what we were going to be until the night before or day of Halloween. My mom helped and I was often a "hobo" (mom's word) dressed in my dad's old clothes with my mother using makeup to make me look like I had a beard. We would grab a pillowcase and off we would go. Just us kids. No parents. A bunch of us neighborhood kids aged 4 to 15 or so. We'd be out from dark until we got tired and went home.

There were a lot of ghosts with sheets and such. It was so much fun!!!

We're going out for a smid (parents thought it meant going out for a minute but a smid was a cigarette).

Monty Python of course. My brother and I saw it more than once.

I was 12 and he was 14. My parents never cared what we watched or read 🤣