Memo to old people: GET A LIFE

Add this article to a recent Macleans cover story on the refusal of sixty-somethings’ unwillingness to go on permanent vacation in Florida, and it becomes painfully obvious that the noble idea of mandatory retirement is all but on the way out:

Majority of retirees don’t want to go: study

“Altogether, nearly 60 per cent of those surveyed who retired between 1992 and 2002 left earlier than they wanted…

The study shows that only about 40 per cent of participants retired willingly and without second thoughts.”

Apparently, only 40% of Canadian old people have discovered the joys of fishing, golfing, or spending time with the grandkids. The other 60% seriously need to get a life, in my humble 20-something opinion. Suffice it to say: In forty years, I will be quite strongly committed to eradicating any peskiness in my life which inhibits my ability to fish, most prominent being my job.