Hanging Out

One day, when I called for a plumber to come to the house, I asked for my favorite, Bill Roberts, only to learn he had retired. The man who did come to the house, was a totally different sort of person, one I didn’t like much. I asked him what Bill was doing these days, now that he had retired. This guy said, “Just hanging out, I reckon.”

What a shock. Bill had more on the ball than to spend his time “hanging out.” Isn’t that what teenagers do at malls, game places, and street corners in big cities?

The shock was really that this man’s idea of retirement was probably one of just hanging out. I wonder how many tens or hundreds of thousands in this country think that’s all they are fit for when they retire.

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