Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 29, 2022

The clock would be good for kindling

the coocoo clock.

Just because the wife feels guilty if she isn’t doing some chores is no reason for him to be a workaholic.

What part of “retirement” doesn’t the wife understand? Bu then I guess she does understand.

Beans would get him half off his butt.

Its a “Drive you coo-coo” clock!

He doesn’t need a clock for that he has a wife

That’s what what ‘smart’ watches are for.

Either they both have a great sense of humor or they are soon to be divorced.

I’m currently job searching, I want to get off my butt

For some reason this reminds me of the android version of Harry Mudd’s ex-wife in Star Trek.

Switzerland’s contributions to civilization; unethical banking, and the cuckoo clock.

For decades, I worked hard (enough) so that I could retire and be quite perfectly useless. I’ve achieved my goal. And I saw this coming decades ago, too. Women were getting militant about demanding more “help around the (her) house.” The solution was simple. Don’t have a woman hanging around the house. I eat what I want, come and go as I please, and hire, and pay very well, someone to clean my house when it gets to the point where >I< think it needs it…

As long as it’s just newspapers he’s reading, he will eventually finish and get up. Once he is hooked on the Internet, it will be as if he’s glued to the chair.

Oops! It fell in the fireplace!

She is trying to separate him from exactly what he had been working toward for umpty years. Wonder what he would be doing if their roles were reversed?

Time to get and stay unwound.

I’ve witnessed too many husbands go to seed after retirement. Post retirement plans of travel, fun and exercise gone out the window because of inactivity. My sister couldn’t get her retired hubby to do anything and it shortened his life.

Funny. Since retiring, I haven’t been busier. But then again, I don’t have the equivalent of that cuckoo clock.

Hope everyone in Florida & the other states are okay after Ian.

I read this as I wait for my data to be ready so I can continue with my workday.

I like to exercise my brain with problem solving. That’s the main reason I work. I’ve convinced a company to pay me to do it.

where’s me hammer!

well if it sounds like his wife, he probably can’t hear anyway

there are commercials for a jesus clock that tolls the hours by james earl jones reading scripture. I like to imagine that around 2-3 am ‘james’ slips off script a little and someone it woken to “You are part of a rebel alliance and a traitor”

The wife is obviously enjoying the gift.

most excellent

I got a clock for the 25th anniversary on the job. My co-workers said it was the perfectfor me because it never worked and neither did I! I still have it and it still doesn’t work. But twice a day it’s perfectly on time!

I could live the rest of my life with no vacuum cleaners. None.

Automated nagging as opposed to cloned nagging?

Sounds like my Apple Watch.

I am surprised no one mentioned that the clock was the wrong time based on how many times it chimed. It should be 4 o’clock and not 2 o’clock. :/

Yo, koo koo bimbo. Retired!

And then there is the woman who worked a full time job for 30 years, raised several children, and retired at the same time as her spouse. She doesn’t just sit in an easy chair boring herself with ball games and solitaire. She had her ‘but’ list ("I wanted to do a/b/c . . ., but couldn’t because the kids had soccer practice/I volunteered at the school/I traveled with my job/they needed a scout assistant/they needed a parent to go on field trips/etc.) and she proceeds to go down that list. She tries basket weaving (the old joke) and pottery. Pottery is fun and soon she is making pottery pieces to sell for charity. She takes her grandchildren to various activities and teaches them to swim and goes with them when they go on vacations. Her retired spouse (their grandfather) stays home (he doesn’t like to travel) and sits in his easy chair reading the news and playing cards online and at the local club. He feeds the pets. What about the house, the dishes, the laundry? They wait til she returns. And people chide her about the state of his health and criticize her for not taking better care of him.

Maybe Phil could reprogram it to say “Ding! Time for a Nap … Ding! Time for a Nap”.

Curse you Wiley! My wife saw this and now wants to know where she can buy a clock like that!

There’s a clock that gives 12 different bird calls for the hours of the day.

In my old age I’ve learned how to deal with annoyances like this.

I’d be throwing balls at it…

Where can I order one??

Now, that’s a good reason to buy a pistol.

Pull!

I wonder if cuckoo clocks have evolved with time. Maybe they have digital versions with Siri’s voice

That’s such a cozy little corner. I wouldn’t want to get up either.

Time for the trash man!

I have a watch that every so often says, “Get up and move.” But it says it even when I’m already in motion so I tend to ignore it.

I think that, when a person retires, he/she should do what ever makes him/her happy. If that means sitting all day and reading or watching TV, that’s fine. If it means staying very busy, that’s fine, too.

At my house, that clock might survive the first “chime”, but it wouldn’t survive the second. My wife can ask me to do something, but “honey-do” lists telling me to do a bunch of things on days off get ignored. Asking politely works much better for me than a “demand list”.

It’s 2 o’clock but he’s getting four "get off your butts! …bonus nags?

Why would it ding 4 times when its 5 to 2?

The graduation gift says, “Get a job. Get a job. Get a job.”

Each person in the house is responsible for stuff that needs cleaned or maintained, regardless of gender .