God my dad is bored now he's retired.

(nice photo btw)

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But what do you do with retired dads? Mine started jogging which is great, and going to the movies all the time.

My father started watching a lot more television. And complaining about every single bloody thing.

my dad will have to work til they put him in the ground lol

Can he tell us what it's like, as it's probable we'll all have to as well.

he doesn't think about it at all, judging by the unacknowledged arrears letters that get sent to me on his behalf

I was home for a few days the summer my dad was retiring, 2/3 years back, and we took a long walk on the beach and were having a relatively good chat by dad's standards (he can be hard to engage in a real conversation, though not in a bad way, just how he is)

Anyway we were talking about his retirement and he was like, quite upbeat: "I've got the work on the new front of the house to keep me busy, but once that's done I've got a few other projects on the go too."

And so I said "Great! Like what?"

And there was a long silence...

"Ah well like..."

"....."

"Ah this and that" and we both lol.

BE HONEST DAD YOU'VE NOTHING ON THE GO HAVE YOU? NOTHING!

Obviously didn't say that and actually he's doing great, golfing a lot, does a few businessy things to keep him going. He seems more energetic overall, last few years of work he'd come home and be asleep on the couch by 9.

i'm stockpiling movies, albums, games, books and grudges for when i retire, i may well go on the dole when i have enough

i can't wait for retirement, once i can amass that feeling of self-satisfaction at having done something good.

which will be easy obviously, it's not as if currently i spend every free minute despairing at the utterly low-brow meaningless churn of what i do now.

rub it in anyway