Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 30, 2021

She doesn’t like the competition.

Wait until he goes to the grocery store with you and explains how to do everything.

Role reversal. I, a woman, was the one who worked outside our home. It’s been about a decade since I stopped working and we’re still figuring out how to do stuff with both of us at home. For instance, he’s still teaching me how to cook.

Time for some Honey-do behavior.

Yeah. My wife made that call on me a few years ago.

“RETIRED ….. adjective ….. 1. Having left one’s job and ceased to work.”

Ummmm…this is too close to home.

Ah, yes, the ineffable joy of a long marriage: https://twitter.com/i/status/1447849192068616196 Or is that the insufferable joy. Commitment, after all, is what happens to crazy people…

Also those of us who now have a full time working-from-home spouse.

I used to have to get up at 5 to drive him to the train so I’ll take the extra body cluttering my house instead of scraping an icy windshield in the dark.

He needs a “honeydo” list i think.;-D

“He looks somewhat familiar, but I just can’t place the face.”

and he doesn’t do naught the live long day. He is “retired” from work, any and all of it. Football will roust him to get his assorted buffet up and running, but no one be invited but himself.

I don’t fish and I don’t golf, so there is no sense in retiring.

I’m 72 and still have a full-time job – actually by today’s standards, it’s a part-time job – only 40 hours.

My wife is 71 and she has a couple of part time jobs.

We both work from home, but rarely get a chance to have lunch together.

We’ve been married for 50 years. I think the reason we still love each other is that we’ve only seen each other for about 25 of them.

Over the decades, she and I have maintained lockers with lots of ready-to-wear hugs. All we have to do is warm them up [takes about a second] and use them, usually several time a day. No better medicine ever devised.

I retired long before getting married. She’s WFH on 4/10 schedule. I’m having trouble with three-day weekends every week.

If he’s retired, why the tie?

No problem, sign him up for scuba lessons.

And it’s wonderful.

From all accounts (and what I’m dreading) is that the retiree doesn’t “loiter around”. The retiree is still full of “management energy” and now only has a theoretical staff of one to micro-boss.

There is no adjustment period. From now until forever more it will be a PITA having them around the house all day.

So glad that I was single again when I retired.

Personal quote from Honey; ‘’Am I gonna have you home all day now?’’

Panda replies; ’’Don’t worry. It’s not like I’ll be standing in front of the TV all the time.’’

I ran a small consulting business from home back in the 90s. It drove my wife crazy. She was much older than I and had the 1940s idea that a man’s place was in the office. :)

My husband and I don’t have these problems. He’s always been nocturnal, so he is up doing what he enjoys all night, and I’m up during the day. We enjoy each other’s company in the evening until around midnight when I go to bed.

Define territories and common areas. Schedule time together.

When I retired, it was an opportunity to try different things, such as sailing, scuba diving, teaching, volunteer for the American Red Cross and the Peace Corps. I’m 72 now and still looking for more adventure as long as my health remains good.

We both work and try to split up the chores, and we will do the same if we ever retire

That could be my wife. I retired after working 51 years and she hasn’t worked outside the house in 23 years, so she is trying to get used to me after all those years, but I’m finally enjoying a little rest. Everyday is Saturday after retirement.

Is he retired and wearing a TIE? WHY???

Have not quite 2 years to go but in expectation of a huge life adjustment I have a ‘retirement list started. The first item on list is ’do nothing for 2 months’ after that I have 9 to do(s)…. so far. :)

i worked 9 years after my husband went on disability to get my time in to get my full retirement benefits and then when i did retire we had 6 beautiful years of spending time doing whatever we could do together that his heath would allow. we made the best of a yucky situation and i have soooooo many happy memories to look back on; we loved being together and my memories are the best!

This sounds like my wife in about 11 months.

So, the 911 op already has started a cruiser rolling her way The cop(s) in it are going to be rather pi$$ed when they discover that the call to that address is because two adults who should know better both are behaving like rebellious 3-year-olds. Their ensuing report (which goes on permanent public record) will not be worded kindly toward either of the parties in this disagreement.

Don’t be this way – on either (or both) side(s) of the equation. The results will NOT net out at zero. You may find that eventual resolution is by far more costly than you ever could have imagined, no matter ‘who struck Willie’, which was my mother’s favorite phrase when I was complaining bitterly or petulantly or incessantly about some perceived slight.

Face your problems, don’t Facebook them. The other person in the disagreement is not going to be at all impressed with your making the issues between you appear in any public forum. Nor should you call 911 for someone to come and ‘fix’ your perceived issue – unless there really is a Public SAFETY issue that requires police intervention.

In t he old days,there was a letter about this “problem” in ANN LANDERS every other week.