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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • My parents have long since passed on, so it’s not even possible. I may end up living with my daughter later down the line. I’m SO single and solitary (by choice) that I’m concerned about going all dementia/stroke/heart attack later on with nobody to tend to me, so I’ll likely lean on her when I’m in my mid to late sixties or so.

    She’s getting everything I own, and I should have reasonable retirement funds, so it’s not like I’m going to rely on her financially.

    My big mistake was fucking up on getting myself long term care, which I no longer can do unless I get a new job. My employer and I mutually fucked that up when I started at my current job.

    Fun quotes from my daughter, around age ten or eleven: “You’re going to be the cranky old man that we grudgingly take on vacation with us.” and “You can always live in my basement.”

    And yes, we have discussed this topic. I’m not unilaterally just saying this on the Internet.









  • Got_Bent@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.worldHistory repeats itself.
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    I saw some truck commercial yesterday where the thing was eighty thousand dollars AFTER all incentives and rebates.

    I thought to myself that the people who are screaming about inflation and how the Democrat president is ruining their lives are the same people who are lining up to make crazy monthly payments into a vehicle that will immediately be upside down on the note.






  • You joke but…

    I was in a benefits meeting a few years ago led by the insurance rep for our employee health coverage.

    Deductibles came up.

    I raised my hand and asked, “So if I go skiing for Christmas and snap my femur on December 26, it behooves me to delay any treatment until January 1, right?”

    She didn’t miss a beat and said, “Yes, that’s correct.”

    There was a stunned silence in the room from that one.