A child of five can tell the time but a man of fifty X, where X is a small positive integer refuses to tell the time and what’s even more relevant , is when he is a retired or retarded , or both, time is not of the essence and is of no importance whatsoever. If he misses his train so what, if he doesn’t turn up for a private doctor’s or dentist’s appointment he can always wait another couple of weeks and damn the expense for another one or if an NHS patient he can always wait for another month or two and hope that his tooth ache goes away in the case of the dentist and in the case of the doctor, prays that he hasn’t got something live threatening or contagious.
In the real world many of our lives are run by a clock, however in retirement you can do what you want, when you want and wherever you want.
Yes Billy was late on day one of the journey only by fifteen minutes and when questioned about his tardiness he told us and his excuse “There was a traffic jam on The Kings Road once again caused by the council once again digging up the same piece of road that they have dug up on at least five occasions for the last five years. Have you ever watched these council employees at work or more like at shirk?. Amongst a typical work party of five, there will be two leaning on shovels while smoking, two looking down the hole while talking, and one down the hole out of site doing nothing. Sometimes they form a tight group so that passers by think that they are in intense concentration mode when in fact they are fooling on-lookers that they are actually doing something, while in reality they are shielding their hole bound mate who is sabotaging something subterranean which will give them another of couple of weeks work out of what was supposed to be a five minute job”
Anyway the Captain turned to Billy and said” Better late than never” to which the First Mate added “Just like British Rail then?”
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