For some time now, the patriotic thing in Spain is to delay the retirement age, an upward option that enjoys good press and is transversal, healthy and who knows if it is sustainable.
Is postponing retirement right or left? Is it typical of progressives or façades? Do active septuagenarians deserve the Renfe gold card?
Although experts do not know it, the prolongation of working life in Spain is due to the high number of divorced people who reach the age of 65 without knowing when it is time to change their wardrobes and without plans, no longer for tomorrow, but for this Saturday night.
-What do you do for living?
Here is the quick question that is never missing in the relationships of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
–I was a pimp but since they made the profession illegal…
Everything works, except the truth.
–I am retired.
–Ah… well, that’s great, isn’t it?
Is it sexy to be retired?
People will say mass, but after a long life of divorce and having asked the question for ulterior purposes, 95% of those surveyed in a sober state have answered no, 2% maintain that a retired boyfriend is a bargain if he allows himself to be advised and 3% estimate that married padel players of working age are already on the market for balances.
Married people have more incentives to retire at the right age. Home calls them. They finally have within reach the most precious treasure that life had denied them: time for their spouse and to frequent their second summer residence in February, reorganize the art gallery in the dining room and shatter the world record for trips to the supermarket without a dog, in the possession of Artemio Llopis Mesón de Vargas since July 7, 2018, a week after retirement, greatly celebrated by his colleagues and, especially, the brand new director of human resources, who gave him an erotic selfie with her dedication: “ Go away and don’t come back!”
The most prepared generation of divorced people in the history of Spain has come to stay in the world of work. And whoever doesn’t like it, let them have offspring.
