My dad, who has recently retired from his job as financial consultant, seems to be without any sense of direction or motivation in his life.
He's 62 years old, but very fit and healthy for his age. But because his working life was so busy he never developed any hobbies. For the last three months he's spent his days watching 10-12 hours of cable television daily.
He watches the Cooking Channel and the Lifestyle Channel, which is cool I guess, but he also spends a lot of time watching the Fashion Channel and a bunch of alleged music shows which seemed to involve gyrating teenagers in midriff tops.
But even worse, he has grown his hair out into a kind of mullet and has taken to drinking those pre-mixed cocktails in a can. When he does leave the loungeroom he sits out on the front step of the house and shouts out (to no one in particular) stuff like: "Rock and Roll!"
Should our family have an intervention for him?
Concerned Daughter,
North Melbourne
VICTORIA, OZ
Dear Concerned Daughter,
It's been three months, eh? Give him three more and then start the ball rolling to 12-stepping your deadbeat retiree dad.
In the meanwhile get him involved in nexrt Wednesday's Wear A Rock T-Shirt Day. He seems to have the right spirit.
Cheers,
Mr Trivia
Mr Trivia would like to remind those asking him for advice that he is almost as clueless as anyone else on the Web, except maybe David Koch from Channel 7's Sunrise program.
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