The pain is not only for leaving the place that has provided you bread and butter, but for leaving an atmosphere in which you have shared all your trivial happiness and sorrow. The pain is for leaving the trailing memories that you have cherished some day. Retirement Jokes can reflect any of the two sides of retirement. It can let people know that you are at last relieved of a tedious working life, though you are shattered from inside. Theydeserveit suggests a few Retirement Jokes that will make you grin while realizing some truths of life.
( This is a Child's Perspective on Retirement)
"At their gate, there is a dollhouse with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go cruising in their golf carts."
"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off." -Abe Lemons
"When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch." -R.C. Sheriff
"When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income." -Chi Chi Rodriguez
"A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job." -Ella Harris
"Retired is being twice tired, I've thought
First tired of working,
Then tired of not."
-Richard Armour
"Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese." -Gene Perret
"I'm retired - goodbye tension, hello pension!"
"Retirement: World's longest coffee break."
"O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!"
-Goldsmith
"Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work." Life begins at retirement." |