Much of the fun of getting to know a new fishing buddy is the slow and pleasant process of asking questions about their life and answering questions about yours.
“Where’d you grow up?”
“What do you do for a living?”
“If you could have any superpower, what would it be?”
That’s the routine Tom Hazelton and I worked through during our first trip together when he asked a question I didn’t expect.
“Are you retired?”
Retired? I suppose I’m old enough to have children Tom’s age. Still, for that to have happened, I’d have had to muster the courage to speak to a girl—any girl—in high school. Because I didn’t develop that particular superpower until I’d made it through four years of college, both of my children are much younger than Tom.
Early middle aged? Maybe. Retired? No.
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