On Retirement

Working people often ask retirees what they do to fill their days. The other day I went down town and into a shop. I was only there for about 5 minutes and when I came out there was a cop writing out a parking ticket.

I said to him, "Come on, man, how about giving a retired person a break?"

He ignored me and continued writing the ticket.

I called him a "Nazi."

He glared at me and wrote another ticket for having worn tires.

So I called him a "doughnut eating Gestapo."

He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he wrote a third ticket. This went on for 20 minutes. The more I abused him the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, I didn't care.

I had come downtown on the bus, and the car that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said "Hillary in '08."