The Blogless Blog

It's almost 11, I'm totally exhausted from a LONG day at work and I'm sitting here thinking what do I want to blog about tonight.....

:::::::::::::::::thinking:::::::: NOTHING is popping into my head.... So here I sit blogging about nothing..... O wait something did just come to me..... :)

At work today I was talking with a lady who is getting ready to retire.... She's older, her job is VERY physically demanding AND she gets treated like CRAP by the customers.... (she's the cleaning lady at one of my stores)

She was telling me how her husband died shortly after he retired and that was the reason she went back to work after her first (retirement). She was afraid te same would happen to her and she financially just could not afford to stay retired.....

Now she *thinks* she's ready to stop working..... but..... you could tell she was still afraid that somehow retirement meant the end of the road for her physically and financially....

I thought about it on the drive home tonight and I felt really bad for her....

I suppose in alot of ways I'm angry at society for NOT taking BETTER care of our elderly....

I'm angry that my generation (The X Generation) doesn't have stronger work AND ethical values.... (WTH happened?)

I'm angry that this woman has to scrub toilets to keep food on her table at a time in her life when she should be relaxing.... Instead she's out there paying her taxes so some 20 something year old can sit at home, keep having child after child and pay for their groceries with this woman's money.....

:sigh: I suppose this isn't the blogless blog anymore....

G'night........