User:Sandie seward

Retired, with lot's of Time on my hands. Well, that's the idea. However, when you retire from the Rat Race.....you miss the racing, then, you also miss the Rats.

Funny thing this "Retirement" malarky. You make loads of plans whilst at work about how you will spend all those long days of freedom.

Then, reality sets in! Lack of money to do all that unlimited travel you dreamed about.

Your health slowly worsens, and you find yourself spending more and more time sitting in Doctors' Waiting-Rooms, and Out Patients Departments at you local hospital.

The hours, and days merge into one long nightmare, you feel yourself growing older, and start thinking about your prospects in the years you have left.

Will it be a Care Home, Nursing Home, or, God Forbid, the type of "home" where everyone sits around a television set that is never turned off, nobody ever watches it, you just sit there, mumbling away to yourself, and the pee runs down your leg.

Sinking towards the grave in a urine-soaked mess, you pray daily for that eventual happy release.