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Skriven 2009-04-05 10:36:00 av PETER COGGON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
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Hello Ruth, and everyone....

 -=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Peter Coggon <=-

 RH> Sounds like it was not a fun time. I got off light compared to you.
 
  I always have to say, that I too got off light, unlike a lot of
people today who are in a worse situation then I.   My wife says
to me ..." You are alive ...arn't you?"

In the job, for all I saved, and got pensions, and retired, there
are lots who I didn't know, or they of I, and they are those
I could have been.

I remember too, you mentioned going to a Retirement Seminar, and I
did too as...well it was offered, but I had already laid my plans
and talked to the right folks, so this was just interest to see
what tripe they could spew forth to those gathered.

There were so many things they said there which just mocked what
many had gone thru and were not in this position to retire.  A
Union who was not there at retirement for me, never helped me
once in that area.  And when it was time for legal action between
this company and I, they stepped in and informed me, all union
avenues of solution must be attempted before I could go to court,
which they never allowed.

It was all so funny .... they asked me why I was laughing, and
I told them if I beleived them and stayed I would be either
dead on the job, or fired, and in any case dead, and my
wife would kill me.

But of course you are talking military and I have not that
experience of a retirement from there, and I hope they are
fair and just to you.

 RH> That's all that matters some days.  Then there are other days when you
 RH> might reach for parsley to add a garnish or do egg in the eye (egg
 RH> cooked in a circle cut out of a slice of bread) instead.  I know both
 RH> feelings--my biggest bug a bear was and still is fatigue.

Ruth ...and it is hard.  I try to stay away from Bread as much as possible
even having what I call Brunch.    My supper is at the same hour the
pets get fed so I can share scrapes and the leftovers go in the fridge.

I like that saying... "Bug a Bear".    Yes, fatigue in retirement and
couch potato and all that is a big enemy, as I found out after the
surgery that put me on my back and I got read what I can not do
anymore....like they took my fab things to do and ended them and
I became a spectator.    Only for my wife after 15 plus years did
I ever don the brand new skates to show her I wasn't what I was
before.   I had a nice skate, but missing was why ...and some of
the moves, just never happened, and a fall felt like life rushing by
and that was it...last time.... that was it...the end.
 
 RH> I've never been to Jamacia and would probably look at it with a
 RH> different eye than the average tourist.

There is an interesting contrast.  rich beautiful estates, and
then where the property line ends....garbage and dirt and a
cardboard box home.    Some of the estates there also have roll
up or down shields against the storms they get....also I think
against the banditos.

I forget all the many times the crimes here in the city close
to me by 50miles have had known crimnals from Jamica, sent back
"x" number of times, committing and killing people...yet I 
can not bring a teacher and student here from Brasil, who is
a member of my family via my wife ?

I is a sore spot with my family here and there, as my mother who
is deceased invited her to visit, and ...we were turned down
yet a killer...sent back so many times is here.... CRAZY!
Thats CANADA.

 RH> Same as Steve never saw me on anything but cross country skis, not
 RH> downhill, which I had to give up (among other things).  I've got metal
 RH> in both wrists and the left elbow.

Oh I tired skiing once...creamed a tree on the way down.  They thought
it unque I practiced like this.   It hurt, but the pole was a great
weapon.   Now I know why the skiiers have them <g>.
 
 RH> It sounds like she would fit in quite well here.  At last year's
 RH> picnic, Michael brought some different chocolates, including some with
 RH> hot pepper and one with bacon in them.

mmmm that reminds me of ice cream pizza.   Thanks to BRASIL I am
off Pizzas.  It was too much.
 
 
oops so ends this page...

Pete


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