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[JDgreen227]

I will add a big "AMEN" to that statement of yours, Bird....one of the best things about retirement is you don't have to face the daily traffic jams or the crowds at the office, or whatever. Some periods now I stay home for a week or two at a time, when I do head out to get more building materials and hardware it's always strange to deal with the traffic and crowds again. We were in Honolulu for the week after Christmas, let me tell you I would HATE living there, retired or not...long lines and crowds everyplace, traffic congestion and all the related issues. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Junkman, although our pensions are not taxed by the state, we still have to pay Federal income tax and we had to pay into Social Security for over 35 years with little hope of ever collecting anything in return...I'm quite certain by the time we hit the 62 year mark there won't be anything left for us to collect or they will change the rules to exempt a lot of people.

 

[Junkman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Junkman, I worked for a government entity and I can assure you that I'm paying income tax on the pension I'm getting. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif )</font>

My comment was about the person that mentioned that he retired from a government job and that his pension wasn't taxed. Now that I go back to find the post, it isn't there. I assume that the person had edited the comments out after I posted mine. It is either that, or in my advanced stage of senility, I am reading things on the screen that really aren't there, but I doubt that is the case. I have seen this happen before and for that reason, I wish that the choice to not show that you have edited the post was removed. I don't like to quote every comment that someone makes like someone else on the forum always does, but sometimes, it will help to keep your post from looking like you are referring to something that doesn't exist. Maybe you should delete my post and then I will feel like this whole experience is in the Twilight Zone... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( when I do head out to get more building materials and hardware it's always strange to deal with the traffic and crowds again. )</font>

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif have been ritired now for 15 months, and when i venture out to the mall or stores i try to do it at not so busy times , but a few months ago, a co. that bought some of our equiptment when our plant closed had some problems with hooking up and operating the equiptment.They got my name from my old Boss (as the expert on that equipt. so they called and offered to pay me VERY WELL to come in and show them what to do. So i agreed and drove into the city one morning during rush hour., and the only thing i could think of during the whole drive was HOW THE HECK DID I DO THIS FOR 44 YEARS /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif