Huh? What's Up With That?

  it is an investment...                   I hear quite often how POS (People Over Sixty) want to travel during retirement years. However, I am just as likely to be told by any one of my small sample of interviewees he or she doesn't have travel plans or harbor any desire to leave the city.     It seems there are as many different thoughts about the post retirement years and how to spend leisure time as there are people.  Sadly, I even had one man say, I just want to get to the end of it , when asked if he had a Bucket List .      Jamie Farr of MASH  television   fame told me in an interview he wanted to cook Lebanese specialties when he retired.  He said his mother taught him how to prepare his favorite dishes.    Richard Egan, an actor who appeared with Elvis Presley in the movie,  Love Me Tender,  said he was going to travel the world now in case he didn't make it...

  welcome home...                                                                                 Most American, Korean War veterans, returned to their homeland and went back to work or school without any kind of welcome or celebration.  It was not the same as previous wars.     HUH ?  What's up with that ?      Unlike WWII when almost all Americans were working toward a unified goal, there was only a small portion of the country invested in the Korean War.  People had a different mindset because they had other things going on in their lives.     According to Historychannel.com,   Korean War soldiers returned home to a population that was largely disinterested in the war effort.   When I came back from Korea, there ...

oddities, observations, & ?'s...#8             It is hard to imagine there is one single person in America who doesn't believe there have been social injustices in our country.  The notion that an individual can rewrite history to his or her specifications and then advance those thoughts as factual is (choose one) a. crazy  b.  farcical  c.  laughable  d.  a, b, and c   It would be a tough job to be a Social Studies teacher in Florida or any number of other states.   A week or so ago, I placed a merchandise order (in person) with a sales rep at my second Encore Performance. The order included Little Tree Air Fresheners.   Five days later, I received a text message on my personal phone from Amazon promoting Little Tree Air Fresheners.      HUH ?  What's up with that ?   I can’t imagine there are many Police Pursuit Vehicle Dealerships in the country, but, Salem, Indi...

  more memories...#5                             This is not the first time traveling after retirement has been mentioned in one of my posts.  In fact, unofficially, retirees wanting to see and hear the sites and sounds of far away places is the initial thought of the majority of people I interview.  At the least, it is the favorite activity most people would like to be able to afford to do.    For most of us, our travel desires during working years are restricted to predictable annual domestic vacations.  Spring Break  and Fall Break  here in Louisville, Kentucky, will usually find vacationing families headed for Destin or Pensacola, Florida.     I am reminded of a young lady during my Encore Performance .  She was a senior by the name of Avery Jackson.     She and I and another student were in my office two or three days before this par...

gotta be up to date...                                                             I have used an antiquated word, phrase or saying and realized only after it was met with a blank look or shake of the head that my uttering was from yesteryear.   There has also been a time or two when a wide open gaping stare has come my way because of a perceived verbal faux pas.   HUH ?  What's up with that ?    Teenagers can make an older person feel as though he or she is part of a vast criminal enterprise.  They will laugh if you ask how a friend is doing and you use the wrong name to identify that person.     Be careful when dredging up a shared memory because every minute detail had better be accurately reconstructed.     It is the same with words, phrases, and sayings.  If a teen ...

  we  say the darndest things...                     The late radio and television host, Art Linkletter, created and hosted a radio program in 1945 called, House Party.  A portion or segment of House Party was named,  Kids Say the Darndest Things.  A television adaption of  Kids... .aired from 1952 to 1969.     The television version of Kids Say the Darndest Things highlighted young children on stage sitting in chairs, side by side.  Mr. Linkletter would interview his guests individually and most times get comical, off beat, off the wall, or, philosophical answers to mundane as well as pointed questions.    Choose any day of the week, any time, any place, and it is not just kids who say the darndest things.     In a previous blog titled, anytime you deal with the...,  I highlighted several conversations with customers which took place during my partt...

job$ somebody's gotta do...                                                                             job$ somebody's gotta do is a tribute to the late Indianapolis broadcaster, Jim Gerard, and his 1960s radio feature,  Sounds of the City,  heard weekly on WFBM-AM.  The host interviewed people with jobs that not many other people held, such as a jackhammer or crane operator, or, a language interpreter.    As a teenager, I was intrigued.  The concept, the questions, the answers, it was all great stuff to me.      In today's world, Sounds of the City would be found on   a podcast.   Just like its model from over 60 years ago,  job$ somebody's gotta do,  highlights men and women with unusual or unique jobs or careers.  ...