It's Official!!!

[Bobshouse]

I finally qualify for the exclusive "triple dipper" club! I've got two retirements under my belt and drawing social security!

Thing I can't figure out is why I don't qualify for any type of state or federal aid and why I had to work for so many years to end up with almost nothing. Now they want to give me another watch....go figure.

[Bawanna]

You didn't use enough food stamps and unemployment. When you stop working, the loot stops. The gimme, gimme gimme folks get it forever.

I'm proud and foolish in that I've never once drawn an unemployment check, no food stamps. Actually don't remember ever not working except for the year I was sorting things out after the chair came along and that year was no picnic neither.

Chiefs retiring and they ponied up enough officer donations to get him his duty gun and a AK Pistol kind of thing he wanted.
One of the guys told me when I retire (not likely) they'll probably get me a Daisy Red Ryder, not a bad thing really, always wanted one.

[Bobshouse]

Got my dads old Red Ryder in the safe with my guns. Still works after all these years! Trading the watch for one of these... .357 vaquero!!

[Planedude]

Congrats for being retired and this side of the dirt.

Maybe I'll get there someday...

And yes, I am bragging about being old enough for AARP and still too young for social security. I mean, what else do I got?

Enjoy the "third retirement"!

[Bawanna]

Got my dads old Red Ryder in the safe with my guns. Still works after all these years! Trading the watch for one of these... .357 vaquero!!

Good Trade.

[AJBert]

I retired in '08 but too young for SS. Still have a few years until I can draw that. I do draw to checks every month, though. My military retirement and my disability pay. Of course, my disability pay is deducted from my retirement pay but it is two different amounts put into the bank account.

[ltxi]

I retired in '08 but too young for SS. Still have a few years until I can draw that. I do draw to checks every month, though. My military retirement and my disability pay. Of course, my disability pay is deducted from my retirement pay but it is two different amounts put into the bank account.

Whut?? You reminds me of my slacker wife. She's 57....decided, without asking, to be shed of the work force late 2015. She plus all living expenses paid draws monthly checks, too....from me. Who, like Bobshouse, is pulling from three well earned retirements.

[Bobshouse]

Thats ok Itxi, we work so they can reap! LOL

[ltxi]

Thats ok Itxi, we work so they can reap! LOL

Yeah. It's payback fer me getting the hot 26 y/o chick when I was 44. But that's okay 'cause she's now gonna be stuck with elder care. He/she who gets the last laugh wins...

[Armybrat]

Got my dads old Red Ryder in the safe with my guns. Still works after all these years! Trading the watch for one of these... .357 vaquero!!

Fine choice Bob - those are nice sixguns - and congratulations!
I put fake "ivory" on mine. (A Talo short spur edition)

Before:



After (with the $28 Altamonts):

[Armybrat]

You didn't use enough food stamps and unemployment. When you stop working, the loot stops. The gimme, gimme gimme folks get it forever.

I'm proud and foolish in that I've never once drawn an unemployment check, no food stamps. Actually don't remember ever not working except for the year I was sorting things out after the chair came along and that year was no picnic neither.

Chiefs retiring and they ponied up enough officer donations to get him his duty gun and a AK Pistol kind of thing he wanted.
One of the guys told me when I retire (not likely) they'll probably get me a Daisy Red Ryder, not a bad thing really, always wanted one.

Luckily my grandson didn't have to wait until retirement to get his RR...

[ltxi]

^ You know he could put an eye out with one of them things, right?

[wyntrout]

Ahhh... BB-gun wars in the woods at our grandparents' place near Braxton, Mississippi, back in the 50's. There was this one time... I was standing on the bank of a creek... might have been taking a leak, but I heard a noise behind me. I turned my head to see at least three of my cousins and siblings in a small group, all with their bb-guns aimed at me. They fired in unison, hitting me in the butt! Thank goodness for sturdy jeans! No one ever got seriously injured... luckily, but my pride took a hit that time... well, my butt, anyhow.

[Ed M]

BB gun wars - good memories!

We did that stuff too when I was a pup.

It was all fun and games until I got a Crossman air powered BB gun. With 10 pumps in it, it'd go right through jeans and draw blood.

Suddenly, no one wanted to play.

[Armybrat]

A Benjamin 317 pump in .177 was my weapon of choice to slay all sorts of little varmints when we lived in St. Louis in the mid 1950s. Never looked at my little Daisy "Pal" after that.
Eye protection? Never heard of it!