2 comments: First, most of the active SrCits are depression babies, and their formative years happened concurrent with the Great Depression era prior to WWII. I know my mom is convinced that scarcity is the rule and there isn’t enough to go around.

Second, the whole concept of retirement at 65 was manufactured in the early part of the last century to encourage older employees to make room for younger folks entering the work force. It is sad to think people are just hanging around waiting to die, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If I do something with my life that I love and am passionate about, I’ll want to keep doing it at some level until I drop dead.

In Rhode Island almost everyone knows someone who works for CVS Corporate, so everyone and their cousin would get a little piece of paper that gave them 30% off all purchases for that day. Let me tell you, it was a hellish experience, actually it was so busy that two years in a row the network that CVS uses to process any type of card completely crashed. Not fun, at all.

So I feel your pain, our experiences were mostly the same.

On a side note, Tuesday’s with Morrie is one of the best books I’ve ever read. A quote that particularly stood out for me was, “Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too–even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling”. Now that is a great quote to live by.

Keep up the great work.