Gettin ’ by on my
OWN SUPPLY
WARNER’S CORNER
DAVE WARNER
Star 102.7
Before I get to that retirement stage over again. That appealed to me, the simple one that perfectly sums up
of life, where I’ll spend my days simplicity of it, not too much thought who I am and what I do. Like the Fat
required. He’s outside in the Flower Man at Rusty’s or the ABC
eating at buffets, yelling ‘get off
fresh air with a beautiful television show Two Men in a Tinny,
my lawn’ and firing off angry
Cairns sunrise as his it is what it says. So down the track
letters to the editor about
backdrop
watching in years to come when you’re
bus timetables, while
unbearably fit and heading out for a family picnic and
signing off in capitals
YOU NOW HAVE
happy people and you feel like some fruit keep an eye
with words like OUT-
TO BE THE SAME
their puppies bounce out for the Paw Paw Bastard on the
RAGED, GUTFUL and
AGE AS YODA TO
into their day. To side of the road. Think I might even
NOT HAPPY JAN, I’m
LEAVE THE
paraphrase Jay Z, I’m expand into juices and to stay on
going to semi-retire.
(WORK) FORCE
sure he’s got 99 theme launch with a watermelon
problems but the job and cauliflower cocktail called The
It’s a long way off because
Melancholy.
ain’t one. I’d like to
the
government
keep
think he drives around
pushing back the retirement
But don’t be fooled by
goalposts. You now have to be the all day just popping out
the name, the pawpaw
same age as Yoda to leave the (work) palm puns in his head,
I’M GOING TO SET
bastard on the side of
force. (If you can’t be arsed like the movie ‘On
UP A ROADSIDE
the road is gettin’ by
Golden Frond’ starring
googling, ‘900 he is’).
FRUIT STALL
Peter Fronda.
on his own supply.
SPECIALISING IN
Living his best life on
So what does semi-retirement look
TROPICAL
FRUITS
simple terms and that
like? I was watching a bloke on the So with that sort of
makes him one of the
Nard recently drive around on his simplicity in mind, I’m
richest blokes on the
ATV quad bike thingy. He’d pull up going to set up a roadside
street.
next to a fallen palm frond, pick it up fruit stall in semi-retirement
and put it in the back. And then he’d specialising in tropical fruits and
drive to the next one and do it all I’ve already picked out my name, a Now GET OFF MY LAWN.