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Guy started work at a Goodyear tire plant in June 1943 at age 17. Just retiring now
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So the US still makes tires?

Bet that man doesn't last a year, some people don't know what to do when they retire.

Good for him. I'm proud enough myself for lasting with my current employer for 3 years and counting. Can't imagine 72.

Does make you wonder what it's like to do the same thing, same place for that long. I've never stayed in one place or done one job for more than about 5 years.

Merkin wrote:So the US still makes tires?

Bet that man doesn't last a year, some people don't know what to do when they retire.

There really are a bunch of people like that. And I don't understand them at all, I am on a completely different wave length. I will have plenty of activities to keep me occupied whenever I retire, and if I don't for some reason, I'd still prefer to sit on my couch watching movies rather than commuting and going to work at 6am.

pokinmik wrote:

Merkin wrote:So the US still makes tires?

Bet that man doesn't last a year, some people don't know what to do when they retire.

There really are a bunch of people like that. And I don't understand them at all, I am on a completely different wave length. I will have plenty of activities to keep me occupied whenever I retire, and if I don't for some reason, I'd still prefer to sit on my couch watching movies rather than commuting and going to work at 6am.

My in-laws retired with absolutely no plan of what to do with the rest of their lives and it's painfully obvious they are going to put each other into early graves (perhaps due to a murder suicide situation).

My mother-in-law stays reasonably busy, but mostly just fusses with their house (cleaning, improving, etc). My father-in-law watches Fox News and goes to Breitbart and TownHall.com on his tablet, then rants and raves and goes apoplectic over every little thing Obama or some other Democrat does. And that's about it. I predict my father-in-law has a heart attack, stroke, or embolism in less than 3 years.

I feel like the retired people in my neighborhood are concerned with nothing more than putting my home to complete shame with their full-time yard work.

Longhorned wrote:I feel like the retired people in my neighborhood are concerned with nothing more than putting my home to complete shame with their full-time yard work.

Gravel and desert landscaping for the win brother.

azgreg wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I feel like the retired people in my neighborhood are concerned with nothing more than putting my home to complete shame with their full-time yard work.

Gravel and desert landscaping for the win brother.

I should totally bring it to the midwest. Take that!

Longhorned wrote:

azgreg wrote:

Longhorned wrote:I feel like the retired people in my neighborhood are concerned with nothing more than putting my home to complete shame with their full-time yard work.

Gravel and desert landscaping for the win brother.

I should totally bring it to the midwest. Take that!

Be a trend setter.

Chicat wrote: My mother-in-law stays reasonably busy, but mostly just fusses with their house (cleaning, improving, etc). My father-in-law watches Fox News and goes to Breitbart and TownHall.com on his tablet, then rants and raves and goes apoplectic over every little thing Obama or some other Democrat does. And that's about it. I predict my father-in-law has a heart attack, stroke, or embolism in less than 3 years.

Does he listen to Mark Levin? uhghghgh that's the worst! So bad that I made my Dad promise me he wouldn't listen to him on the drive home from work, before I call him later in the evening (we talk about once a day since Mom died) because Mark Levin always put my Dad in a miserable mood. Got him instead listening to the oldies station - KTUC 1400 AM. Much better stuff.

But, I am mostly in the same boat with my Dad as you are with your in-laws, except my Dad thankfully still works. He's old enough to retire but working anyway because he doesn't want to come up with 'retired' things to do like golf and birdwatching. So I told him, keep working then. So far so good, political radio & Drudge Report aside.

Goodyear ... retire. Heh.

What's the difference between a tire and 365 used condoms?




One's a Goodyear and the other is a great year.