Reflect, if you will, on your journey and the 'changing' sales-pitches, which came your way over the years? When my wife and I first married, we had a number of insurance sales people contact us to tell us how we needed the obvious; auto coverage, health insurance and life insurance...remember those days? Soon someone was at my door wanting to explain how I needed an IRA and college savings programs for the baby.
When the kids were married & gone, the hawkers figure I deserved a reward so I began getting all kinds of offers to purchase some great property in the Arkansas woods; I could now plan for retirement. A plethora of ocean cruise opportunities came for a number of years.
When I reached age sixty-five, I began getting all kinds of 'internment' offerings. My wife and I finally 'made' those life-ending plans. We did so for two reasons: First, we wished not for our children to be left with this responsibility and expenses and secondly, it is depressing to continue to get telemarketing calls reminding me that time is 'running-out.' Meanwhile, that actor guy, Fred Thompson keeps sending me mail telling me that I should consider a 'reverse-home-mortgage.' He claims that it's a great deal that began with Ronnie Reagan. Then there's two gals (Heather and Rachael) who keep telephoning telling me that they got a good deal on credit-card consolidation.
If you're ever near Decatur stop for a backyard swing-chat. Don't come THIS weekend, we have free a room at a Peoria casino; great offer...I spend money gambling and eating and they let me sleep there two nights!
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