Horsefly Posted March 31, 2021 Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 I was designated practical joker at Peterbilt truck factory so thought it would be fitting to retire April Fools Day. I had a fantastic job and great people but retirement 10 times better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted March 31, 2021 Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 Good for you. I have a feeling I won't be retiring. I may "get retired" some day from these kids running corporations, being the wrong color and all. Guess we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted March 31, 2021 Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think retiring is a tough thought. My hearing is bad, so I plan to retire in two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefly Posted March 31, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2021 My work became so computerized it was leaving me behind. The Ninja Turtle generation were loving it but was rough on us older ratchet heads. We had a tool list required for our job that would be $5,000.00 with Snap-On, but by the time I left a $5.00 mouse could do same job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manureman Posted April 1, 2021 Report Share Posted April 1, 2021 Good for you Jerry! Kinda figured you had and glad it suits you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefly Posted April 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2021 Thanks Jim. Reckon the best thing about retirement is no daily routine my life doesn’t revolve around making it to Friday. It took a couple years to get the point of not knowing what day of the week it is. Not being woke up every morning at 4:00 mechanically for last 31 years is not missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlunity Posted April 1, 2021 Report Share Posted April 1, 2021 Welcome to the club..Now the only one we gotta answer to is the wife. Gun.....ur...what gun? Oh that one? karl : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 10 hours ago, karlunity said: Welcome to the club..Now the only one we gotta answer to is the wife. Gun.....ur...what gun? Oh that one? karl : ) I used to hear, “oh no not another how many do you need”. I had a gazillion plans for retirement but poor health forked it up. I missed traveling and camping at the National Parks. The only one I visited since I retired was Mt Rushmore and we stayed in a Rapid City hotel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted April 2, 2021 Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 At least you picked the Black Hills. I lived there a little while when I was a kid. Beautiful place. It's a cryin' shame you couldn't go exploring more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsefly Posted April 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2021 Your a bunch a good ol boys not hooraaing me about being a day off in original post. Thought all day Wed. it was April 1st. Another sign of retirement loosing track of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinman Posted September 15, 2021 Report Share Posted September 15, 2021 Horsefly, this cracks me up! I just read this thread for the first time and I saw you retired the same day I did from the Portland Oregon fire bureau as a Fac. Maint. Tech. I felt that it was fitting I was leaving the fools behind. HA! Fireman are great people and yet they can really tear things up. It got really tiring and I had had enough of it. May you enjoy your anniversary as much as I do. It's easy to remember the date as my wife quit smoking on the same date 23 years ago. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted September 15, 2021 Report Share Posted September 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Tinman said: Horsefly, this cracks me up! I just read this thread for the first time and I saw you retired the same day I did from the Portland Oregon fire bureau as a Fac. Maint. Tech. I felt that it was fitting I was leaving the fools behind. HA! Fireman are great people and yet they can really tear things up. It got really tiring and I had had enough of it. May you enjoy your anniversary as much as I do. It's easy to remember the date as my wife quit smoking on the same date 23 years ago. Michael Years ago I often partied with Fireman having two shoe string relatives that were Captains. Fireman by far are some of the biggest practical jokers you can imagine. I once got a ice cream cone with a chocolate swirl that turned out to be brown silly string. The silly string was made with soap. At a party they got a newbie’s wife to hide then told him they were short two me in the orgy in the bedroom asking if he was interested in joining or taking pictures. When their mark couldn’t find his wife he went to the bedroom then pounded on the locked door. As soon as he started knocking his wife came behind him in the hallway saying what are you doing in there. Several years ago a few guys I knew along with all the airport fire station employees got into deep trouble. They were partying on duty at the station with airline stewardesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Hess Posted September 15, 2021 Report Share Posted September 15, 2021 I lived in Bryan, TX for a decade or so. They hold an annual fireman training thing there. My sociology teacher at Blinn was a local cop going for his PHD in sociology. (Survey Says... 57! Yeah!) He told us that when the fireman convention was in town, prostitutes were bused in from Killeen. The cops just looked the other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinman Posted September 15, 2021 Report Share Posted September 15, 2021 That all sounds so much like the Firemen here. I had lighting to take care of at the station in North Portland and it was in the locker room. Mens locker room, as we had Female staff as well. When I got my ladder set up to take the lights apart I looked over the middle locker stack and found the largest porn stack I've ever seen. That lasted until we got a female chief and all of the unsavory materials were banned at the stations. The drinking kind of died down as well. They see so much bad stuff all the time, that was their comic relief I guess. I am glad I only had to take the stations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzRednek Posted September 16, 2021 Report Share Posted September 16, 2021 13 hours ago, Dr.Hess said: . The cops just looked the other way. I once got a free pass on a speeding ticket. I was doing about 40+ in a residential zone with a limit of 25. I bought a Pontiac from my brother in law, a Phoenix fire Captain. He had a round sticker on the bumper indicating he was a fire Capt. There was also a metallic disc attached to the trunk lid. It indicated his membership in a police/fire fraternal org. Cop after pulling me over approached my car saying slow down Captain. Cop walked back to his car, turned off the overheads then drove off like a bat out of hell. The way he sped off he probably was answering a call. My sister in law, the Captain’s wife wasn’t so lucky in the Pontiac. She unintentionally blew through a construction zone and was ticketed by a Deputy with no connection to the city. I don’t recall how much but in Arizona speeding fines double in construction zones if workers are present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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