Retired Guys and Blondes

Blonde With More Time

What do other people expect from a retired guy?  Now that can be an interesting question.

A friend of mine said something about twenty five years ago that has stuck in my mind ever since she said it.  And it has changed my outlook on life as a retired guy.  My friend was a blonde haired lady and as we were talking one day. I somehow worked the trite saying "blondes have more fun" into the conversation.  In response to my weak attempt at putting some humor into our conversation she lamented, “Blondes have more fun; blondes have more fun; that's all I ever hear.  But it's not true.  People expect so little from us that we just have more time."  She wasn't making a blonde joke when she said it, she was just expressing her frustration at what I had said.  Something must have happened in her recent past that caused what I said to trigger the frustration.

When I began my life in retirement I began to notice that as retired guys people expect less of us than they used to before we retired, so we have more time.  How we use that time determines whether or not we have more fun.  It also has a great impact on how we will make the most of our lives for the next twenty or thirty years or for whatever time we have in retirement.  


Maybe people expect so little from us that we can sneak up on them and do something that really counts.  Think about it!