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I still have 4 or 5 of those coolers from safe driving awards. Make good bait buckets.
Typical Day Of Being Retired
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satellitedriver
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I still travel with these maps in my personal truck. Every road in Texas and a map of all the USA roads. Even when I drove all through England and Ireland, I had a Rand McNally map as a backup for my GPS. I have that exact same cooler in my shop.
Used it as my lunch box in a coal mine from 1978 to 1985 and then used it from 1986 to 2014 as my lunch box when I drove for UPS. Now that cooler is in my shop, and I store electrical parts in it for possible future needs to repair something.
Waste not want not.
Commercial Inside Release
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Same '80s cooler, too. After busting my ass as a bill poster all morning while it was cool out, I'd enjoy breakfast from that cooler on the catwalk of a billboard many stories above the interstate.
Traffic would backup for miles, and watching them scramble was fine entertainment.
Traffic would backup for miles, and watching them scramble was fine entertainment.
rod
Retired 23 years
I like to travel with paper maps also. I do use GPS but have been lead astray by it a few times. Once in Colorado it sent me up the side of a mountain at about a 50 degree angle pulling my toy hauler. I ended up in 4 wheel drive low range just to get up to where I could turn around. My wife was looking for a place to eat and it was too late before we realized we were headed up to a ski lodge.
pkgdriver
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Hard to find if they even do sell them. Everything has a price. What ya offering?
Dont low ball me…Ill just donate them tothe Smithsonian.ManInBrown
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You lost me at when i go down to my old hub. Why would you do that? Forget about returning and visiting, I’m not even telling anyone I’m retiring. My supervisor will get a call morning of, informing him I’m done. Our #1 seniority driver retired a few months ago same way. 42 years. Called sup, I’m done. What day sup said, I’ve worked my last day he told him. My last day will be like any other day. And then I’ll be gone. Do you have business there? Do you mean you’re shipping something at the customer counter? Not exactly the type of place you return to for craps and giggles.
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Darmark7
Retired 2020. Not my Problem Anymore!
That’s the way to go out. I told my supervisor I didn’t want any recognition or to even mention I was leaving my last day. After work the last day I slipped out without seeing any supervisors. I have never been back to that building. If I have to ship a package I drop it off at a access point or UPS store.
Road Dog 56
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Love being retired.
Can do what you want when you want.
Bored?
No way Jose. Have so much to do. never enough time to do everything we want.
Tell guys at work all the time . RETIRE! and enjoy life.
Money?
Not a problem if you planned ahead. You don't need as much as when you were working.
Can do what you want when you want.
Bored?
No way Jose. Have so much to do. never enough time to do everything we want.
Tell guys at work all the time . RETIRE! and enjoy life.
Money?
Not a problem if you planned ahead. You don't need as much as when you were working.
Road Dog 56
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you mean you have no friends at work?
I like going down there to see friends and brag about being retired.
burrheadd
KING Of GIFS
@olroadbeech the class knows this is you how many other screen names do you have
You are one twisted little fella
Darmark7
Retired 2020. Not my Problem Anymore!
If they are friends then see them other places than work. Why go see a friend at work where you can’t spend time with them. One of the great things about being retired is not having to drive to the UPS building.
I do know of drivers that complained about UPS and how much they hated it and then would show up there on their vacation. I didn’t complained about the job. I knew it afforded me a good life but I didn’t like it or the way the drivers was treated. Supervisors were really surprised when I said I wanted to leave with no mention. They never knew how I felt about them or UPS. I lived under the radar there and I left under the radar. While there I came in a few minutes before start time and left immediately after clocking out. I never hung around the office talking to supervisors. I did my job and went home to my family. The last thing I wanted to do was “shop talk” off the clock.
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ManInBrown
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Real life friends? No. Work friends? Yes.
Road Dog 56
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Funny. true for me also.
All my real friends are people I grew up with or early adulthood.
UPSers are a pretty much into the material life.
Road Dog 56
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I did the same.
Left and no one knew I was gone for months.
Darmark7
Retired 2020. Not my Problem Anymore!
I retired at the end of October 2020 and almost 2 months later around Christmas time a UPS driver delivered a package to my home. The driver looked at me and asked how I had the day off so close to Christmas. I laughed and told him I was retired. He said “I didn’t hear about that.” I said that was exactly how I wanted it.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Been out since Nov of '09.
I used to make fun of my kiddos for making such a big deal over coffee. You know, where it's from, grinding their own beans, etc. Just give me gas station coffee or whatever.
But now, in retirement, I've realized one must give the proper time and product to ensure the perfect cup of brew.
You guessed it. I done went and got me one of them there Keurig things. I'm a master barista.
I used to make fun of my kiddos for making such a big deal over coffee. You know, where it's from, grinding their own beans, etc. Just give me gas station coffee or whatever.
But now, in retirement, I've realized one must give the proper time and product to ensure the perfect cup of brew.
You guessed it. I done went and got me one of them there Keurig things. I'm a master barista.
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Bad Moon Risen'
I'm sore from 3 days of skiing. Might have to get a massage today.
