Retirement

[Rodgera]

I was enjoying the second week of my retirement the same way I had
enjoyed the first week: by doing as little as possible.

I ignored my wife's not-so-subtle hints about completing certain jobs
around the house, but I didn't realize how much this bothered her
until the clothes dryer refused to work, the iron shorted and the
sewing machine motor burned out in the middle of a seam. The final
straw came when she plugged in the vacuum cleaner and nothing happened.

She looked so stricken that I had to offer some consolation. "That's
okay, honey," I said. "You still have me."

She looked up at me with tears in her eyes. "Yes," she wailed, "but
you don't work either!"

[cava]

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