An "older" gentleman works for a Bunnings store ...

... helping direct customers at the entrance. He's a great success with customers and staff and everyone loves him. He has an easy way with people, but has one fault. He is always late arriving for work in the morning. When it was time for the manager to call him in for a review of his work, he was full of praise, affirming the staff member, telling him about all the good reports he'd heard about him. He gently tries to bring up the matter of his lack of punctuality. You used to be in the Navy, I believe? What did they say to you when you arrived late then? The older gentleman replied, "They would say: Good morning, Admiral, may I get you a coffee?"

As we get older ...

... we sometimes begin to doubt our ability to "make a difference" in the world. It is at these times that our hopes are boosted by the remarkable achievements of other "seniors" who have found the courage to take on challenges that would make many of us wither. Harold is one such person. “I've often been asked, 'What do you old folks do now that you're retired'? Well, I'm fortunate to have a chemical engineering background, and one of the things I enjoy most is turning beer, wine, and port into urine”.

A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money ...

The old gentleman said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last threepence. I invested that threepence in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for sixpence."

"The next morning, I invested that sixpence in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them for a shilling. I continued this system day after day, and before long, I'd accumulated a fortune of two pounds ten shillings."

"Then my wife's father died and left us two million pounds."

A foursome of senior golfers hit the course

With waning enthusiasm for the sport, the first complained, "These hills are getting steeper as the years go by". "These fairways seem to be getting longer too," said one of the others. "The sand traps seem to be bigger than I remember them too," said the third senior. After hearing enough from his Senior buddies, the oldest, and the wisest of the four of them at 87 years old, piped up and said, "Just be thankful we're still on the right side of the grass!"

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