Hamblen County Deputy Stan Shaw had his last day of work on Friday before retiring after 50 years in law enforcement.
“He was going to go enjoy his wife and dog, and fishing with me and my husband and kids and woodworking and stuff,” Rhea Shaw Grebenik, his daughter, said.
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We had a guy retire out at the warehouse only to die of a heart attack a week later. He had the required time in and retired fairly early, saying he worked hard all his life and wanted to enjoy some of it before he died.
It came out later that he'd taken 3 or 4 Viagra over a couple days, so I guess he really was enjoying life.
When your time is up, your time is up.
ReplyDeleteYes and then I always remember the 13th Warrior:
DeleteThe All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing.
Alex Lund
Not the All-Father. The Norns are the ones that spin, measure and cut a person's thread of life.
DeleteThe All-Father just sits and watches, informed by his two ravens as to what's going on in all the worlds...
“He believed in second chances. So, if he arrested you, or came in contact with you, or you had been arrested, he was one of the officers who would sit down with you and counsel you,” Grebenik said.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, he was a skilled interrogator who specialized in extracting unintentional confessions from the unwary.
We had an older guy in my shop at Philly shipyard retire, and I heard he died before getting his first retirement check.
ReplyDeleteMy dad died without getting to retirement age, and that weighed heavily into my taking an early retirement.
I worked at (not for) Bell Laboratories back in the 60's/early 70's. It was amazing to see in the obits in the weekly company paper how many people died within a year of retiring. I imagine there weren't many other places where it was more likely that a person's work was his life. For my part, I always said I wanted to be at home reading books, listening to music, watching movies and playing with my radios. I've been doing that for 23 years no and show no signs of dying soon.
ReplyDeleteOne less thief in line for a bite of my paycheck
ReplyDeleteGood riddance
Shame it took so long
One of my previous dentists developed serious dementia within a year of retiring and did not last long. What a waste.
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