When you retire ...

That is a great question. Probably spend more time writing to these silly opinion comments.

Really
Donating time to the community is the best ideal we can come up with.

Whatever I want. Also volunteer at my church and in the community.

Tell a few people i'll move to New Mexico go visit to my favorite hot spots
Spend time with family and friends if they are still alive. Get a nice house with lots of room to stretch out and relax.

Statistically with my health problems I will not make retirement. If by chance I do, Obama Care will say I cost too much so I'm doomed.

Exercise / workout everyday. Read. Travel as much as possible. Work on my hobbies. Sleep in until at least 6:00 or 6:30.

...I am gonna ride my bike on the road rather than the trail.....

I'm going to drive around town in my Dodge Diplomat 15 miles per hour twice a day during rush hour. Pull my pants up to my shoulders when I'm out in public. Buy black socks to wear with my shorts and wing tips. When I walk into a store I'll stand in the doorway for a couple of minutes blocking traffic until I figure out where I'm at. I'll lean on my shopping cart slowly weaving back and forth down the aisle looking at all the things I don't want or need. I'll call the phone company and keep asking them why I can't get Lawrence Welk on my microwave. I'll use my cell phone as a calculator or TV remote. Everywhere I go I'll ask people if they're working hard or hardly working. I'll complain about how good the kids have it today and how hard I worked as a kid. I'll hand ketchup packets out for Halloween. I'll send old things I find around the house to my grandkids for their birthdays. I'll take my VCR in for repair because it won't play 8-tracks. I guess I'll have a full schedule.

To Typical Old Goat... I hope you do all those things you envision "old goats" do. That way you will be duly rewarded for being a butthead.

Typical Old Goat: I think you hit a touchy spot on azhusker with your comments. I'm not quite at the O.F. area but am getting closer and thought many of your points were RIGHT ON !!
azhusker must be a qu-tip head who actually lives in AZ and takes offense to how "they" act.....

Typical Old Goat

Here's a couple more...

Don't forget to complain about how cold it is even during the summer when it's above 90.
Wear your plaid pants with your paisley shirt, that's always a good fashion statement.

azhusker

You're just mad because you just bought a two pack of black socks and Lawrence Welk is always reruns.

Ooh-Aw
Haha, right you are.....you also will be duly rewarded for also being a butthead.

Typical Old Goat

Don't forget to say things like: "duly rewarded"

Thank you my children, you are a riot.

I actually enjoy reading these posts as they are bringing a smile to my face.
Everyone knows we need a reason to grin a few times a day.
azhusker: thanks for being a good sport.

azhusker

Just the fact that you are responding via the internet proves you don't fit the description of an old goat.

Typical Old Goat... I sure don't fit your description of an old geezer....maybe we could play guess my age?
You are mostly correct about using the internet, but I know more about 60's music than you....so there!!! heehee

typical old goat; you will eat your words if God is willing and the creek don't rise as they say, and you get old/older. Hopefully old enough to feel as foolish as your comments are. Shame on you.

BTW, I am not old but I do respect my elders as well as many others, you are not among the contestants at this point in time though.

I'm not making these things up. I see this everyday and so do most people. When the older generation was young they thought the same thing about their elders. They were young and felt immortal and vowed they would never be that way when they got old. But that's what happens to a lot of people as they get older. I'm sure when I am older I will be the same way and not realize it but I hope to put it off as long as possible. Think of it as making fun of myself in the future. This is more or less a list of things for me to remember not to do if I can remember anything at all. I would advise everyone to exercise their brain and stay fit both mentally and physically well after retirement age. Some people "act" older than they are. They think that just because they’re advanced in age they can't understand "new fangled technology". The truth is you can learn new things just as well when you're 80 as when you're 18, it just might take a little longer. So my whole point is if you do any of the things on my list then STOP acting like an old goat just because you're old!
I plan on retiring someday but only from work not from life.

"Don't be afraid of dying, be afraid of never having lived."

Typical Old Goat.....Amen

People that were or are still active at an advanced age. Nothing says you have to be "old" just because you're past 65.

jack lalanne 94
George H.W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Warren Buffett, age 77
Morgan Freeman is 71
Robert Redford is 72
Paul Volcker
The Pope is 80
Robert Wagner, 78
The Dalai Lama, 73
Tom Smothers, 71
Bob Newhart, 79
Peter Graves, 82
Hugh Hefner, 82
Yoko Ono, 75
Don Pardo, 90
Kirk Douglas (actor)
Mother Teresa
Charlton Heston (actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (actress)
Hugh Hefner
Robert Redford (actor)
Barbara Walters
Maya Angelou
Min Bahadur Sherchan (oldest to scale Mt. Everest according to this)
George Jones (country music entertainer)
Clive Cussler (writer)
Pope Benedict XVI
Betty White (actress)
Andy Williams (singer)
Johnny Mathis (singer)
Ernest Borgnine (actor)
Warren Beatty (actor)
Michael Caine (actor)
Richard Chamberlain (actor)
Robert Duvall (actor)
James Garner (actor)
Donald Sutherland (actor)
Gene Hackman (actor)
Roger Moore (actor)
Jane Fonda (actress)
Ted Turner (media mogul)
Andy Griffith (actor)
Dick Clark
William Shatner (actor)
Rupert Murdoch (media mogul)
Edward "Ted" Kennedy (politician)
Yoko Ono
Joan Rivers (comedian)
Larry King
Judy Dench (actress)
Alan Alda (actor)
George Bernard Shaw

try to survive

It isn't the number of candles on your
cake that makes you old.
Not having enough flame to keep them lit is the problem.

I AM $crewed....NO RETIRING FOR ME....OR ANY YOUNGER GENERATIONS THESE DAYS.... WORK TIL I DIE

Typical Old Goat... yes, I know them too, thankfully not one of them suffers from all of those symptoms. You're right, we all say, I am not going to be like that when I get old, but each generation develops a quirk in their retirement era; I suppose we will be none the different. But thanks for bringing up all of those symptoms, I copied and will tape them to my medicine chest, so I see them everyday. Speaking of medicine chest; I hope when I get old I'm aware enough to not mistake viagra for my bladder control medication. I would sure hate to walk around looking so noticeable while wearing my adult diaper.
Thanks for the laughs!

Jack B. Nimble

I intend to get lit and stay lit after I retire.

pretty much the same thing I do now,travel a little laugh alot fart in public and blame it on some1 else and the most important thing, add life 2 my years instead of the other way around.

Retire?? That means quitting your job,
not quitting your life.
I will retire at the ripe ole age of 49.
Then I will live my life the way I have planned for years. I will travel, I will spend time with my grandkids. Heck I might even go back college.
You are only as old as you feel.
today I am 29 again.

Keep that brain working folks, it's your
lifeline.