Me dads 65 today.

Uglymug

It’s me dads 65 birthday today so I took him down the pub to celebrate.

He said he’s going to miss his £30,000 a year pay but he said he’s going to be OK because he’s made provisions for his old age. He’s been in the same job for 40 years and every year, right from the start, he’s been religiously putting 15% into this thing he said was a pension, Every time he‘s had a pay rise he‘s been putting that bit extra in. He says he’s managed to save about £167,000 into this pension.

Down the pub we started talking to this bloke and he said he could buy this thing called an index linked annuity and that would give him about £5,000 a year. He then asked which section he worked in, was he into pubics or privates. The check, I nearly decked him, but then he said me dad may be entitled to a thing he said was 2 turds of a final celery and that would give him about £20,000 a year. I was gob smacked, that’s 4 times as much and would have cost me dad an extra £500,000 (that’s half a million pounds). Me dad nearly fell of his stool. Can anyone explain what this blokes taking about? He’d had too much to drink right? What idiot is going to give me dad half a million pounds? It just don’t sound right to me.

atush

Too Funny ;-)

pleasedelete

atush wrote: »

Too Funny ;-)

The pubic celery?

2sides2everystory

Could you just run that past me again, Uglymug? Me Dad's twenty year older than your Dad. Me Dad's 85 and he actually has a quite ok pension on which he survives quite reasonably. He worked on a farm for the first 18 years after the War (no pension whatever) and then he got a private sector pension when he turned his hand to driving a forklift and not a tractor for a household name retail chain. He worked in the warehouse - only got promoted once to something called chargehand. He retired at 57 when the yuppies had taken hold and people weren't happy unless they'd got loadsamoney at the end of the week so were cutting corners and making life dangerous.

Easy peasy eh? No need for 40/80ths when 20/60ths will pay for meat twice a week and crumpets for tea on Saturdays.

And then it all went to pot.

Cue now, 25 years later. Public sector wake up, and lo behold it has indeed all gone to pot. When did that happen then??

Pots get discussed and compared and people fall off stools and others almost get decked cos' of the cheek ...

Ah yes, sorry, I think I've got it ... you have to laugh right?

McKneff

Just tell your dad, happy birthday from all of us, give him lots todrink and tell him he dreamt the rest.

Moby

Uglymug wrote: »

It’s me dads 65 birthday today so I took him down the pub to celebrate.

He said he’s going to miss his £30,000 a year pay but he said he’s going to be OK because he’s made provisions for his old age. He’s been in the same job for 40 years and every year, right from the start, he’s been religiously putting 15% into this thing he said was a pension, Every time he‘s had a pay rise he‘s been putting that bit extra in. He says he’s managed to save about £167,000 into this pension.

Down the pub we started talking to this bloke and he said he could buy this thing called an index linked annuity and that would give him about £5,000 a year. He then asked which section he worked in, was he into pubics or privates. The check, I nearly decked him, but then he said me dad may be entitled to a thing he said was 2 turds of a final celery and that would give him about £20,000 a year. I was gob smacked, that’s 4 times as much and would have cost me dad an extra £500,000 (that’s half a million pounds). Me dad nearly fell of his stool. Can anyone explain what this blokes taking about? He’d had too much to drink right? What idiot is going to give me dad half a million pounds? It just don’t sound right to me.

Uglumug ...just say to him 'Welcome to the real world'...I'm sure he'll feel better then!

margaretclare

Tell your Dad happy birthday, and tell him not to take serious financial advice from any bloke he meets in a pub.