Okay, here goes, and I have my flame suit on.
So often I hear people say, and I read here, things like, "what's your hurry, we're all retired." I've seen people dead stop in traffic and wave others across saying, "I'm in no hurry, I'm retired." There was recently a comment about grocery store checkout lines and "what's your big hurry."
Well, normal pace is not necessarily "hurry." The whole world operates at a certain pace and any interruption to normal pace can bolix up everything. From time to time, I encounter golfers playing slowly, saying "What's your big hurry," while they back up the entire golf course. People doddle after dinner sitting for long periods because they are "retired.....what's the rush." Never mind that there are people waiting outside for a table.
Is it okay for the ambulance to slow down because this is a retirement community?
I don't feel that just because a person is retired, they should automatically "slow down to a snails pace." That is an invitation to lethargy and an abdication of responsibilities for order in society. I'm afraid an airplane will not wait for us if we drive slowly to the airport because we are "retired."
Now, I know that some are going to say, "Well Talk Host, do you want us to run around at break neck speed?" Read carefully, I am not saying that, I am saying that I believe retirement is not a license to slow down the whole world. Until the day we die, we all have a responsibility to help keep things running smoothly and on time. There are three speeds, slow, normal and fast.