You know you are FIREd when ?

[ExFlyBoy5]

When - no dread from that 60 minutes clock on Sunday night.

You know, your post got me to thinking. You (and others) have mentioned that damn ticking clock for the show. It also brings back terrible memories of the Sunday blues...all the back to when I was a wee little tyke still in elementary school. So, couple that with all the terrible stories that are on that show...how in the world has it been on for SO LONG?!? I don't think I have EVER heard anyone tell a GREAT story about something on 60 Minutes outside of Andy Rooney which if I recall was about 60 seconds of the ENTIRE hour-long show.

 

[Calico]

You know, your post got me to thinking. You (and others) have mentioned that damn ticking clock for the show. It also brings back terrible memories of the Sunday blues...all the back to when I was a wee little tyke still in elementary school. So, couple that with all the terrible stories that are on that show...how in the world has it been on for SO LONG?!? I don't think I have EVER heard anyone tell a GREAT story about something on 60 Minutes outside of Andy Rooney which if I recall was about 60 seconds of the ENTIRE hour-long show.

Here's one: Ed Bradley interviewing Lena Horne. It doesn't get much better than that.

I still hate the ticking clock, though!

 

[kimcdougc]

When you have more time to read this website!

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

Here's one: Ed Bradley interviewing Lena Horne. It doesn't get much better than that.

I still hate the ticking clock, though!

Well, that interview was in 1981...when I was 7 years old. I stick with my original hypothesis that the show is pure evil.

 

[Calico]

Well, that interview was in 1981...when I was 7 years old. I stick with my original hypothesis that the show is pure evil.

 

[FreeBear]

Wow, someone else, eh?
I recall that even in my childhood. Football games over and
the clock on 60 minutes would sound off on the tv. I always had
an ugh feeling...

+1 Me too, ever since childhood. Dreaded going back to school, then eventually w*rk.

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

+1 Me too, ever since childhood. Dreaded going back to school, then eventually w*rk.

You know, I had a funny reaction yesterday afternoon. After thanksgiving dinner (early in the day), I took my Dad's dog for a walk. He lives in the same house as when I was in school, and as I got up to where I used to catch the bus, I thought about the Sunday blues and how terrible they were as a child. Even though I last stood at that stop in 1982, I remember it like it was yesterday and I could still distinctly remember the dread. So, next time I walk the dog, we're going the other way...

Sent from my mobile device so please excuse grammatical errors.

 

[racy]

...you find yourself being passed by 90% of the vehicles on the road.

 

[Bryan Barnfellow]

You can keep your entire schedule of appointments for the coming week in your head.

-BB

 

[Bryan Barnfellow]

You notice that razor blades seem to be lasting longer, somehow.

-BB

 

[Tailgate]

We've been FIREd for 2 years. Living in the same city we spent last 25 years in, we'd run into former coworkers all the time... neighbors all knew us as the folks that formerly worked at ..... and .....

Fast forward to our recent (6 week) move to a retirement community 60 miles away. Everyone is so friendly and most of our neighbors went out of their way to introduce themselves. We've been in their homes, sat at their dinner tables, played dominos together, had cocktails with them, accompanied them to the local diners, drive ins and dives..my DW won the neighborhood chili cookoff a week after we moved in... all this social activity in a very short period of time. It's been wonderful making great new friends.

I still don't know what several of them did for a living before they moved here. It just hasn't come up in conversations. The ones that I know what company they worked for, I have no clue what they actually did. It's not important.

Not having to associate your w*rk past with your real life. To me, that's really being FIREd...

 

[G8tr]

I still don't know what several of them did for a living before they moved here. It just hasn't come up in conversations. The ones that I know what company they worked for, I have no clue what they actually did. It's not important.



Not having to associate your w*rk past with your real life. To me, that's really being FIREd...

Very true. Many folks associate what they do with who they are - particularly those who spent decades climbing to the tops of their professions. Yet when you're retired, you don't really care what your friends used to do for a living because it's not relevant to what really matters - your friendship.



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