Continued, The Correspondent
Mick Watts
Dear Mick,
In your letter from March you mentioned the matter of your boredom.
Of course you are bored. The mind was not created for idleness.
Golf, drinking, staying in one’s pajamas until late in the morning, stretching oneself to find ways in which to pass the days is the way we were meant to spend our vacation weeks, not decades of our lives.
Guy and I heard a case years back in which a respected physician who retired at the age of sixty-two had, within two years, wrapped himself up in a scheme related to prostitution in Cleveland, been busted and lost all of his money.
That said, early retirement has been wonderful for me.
I will go to dinner with you when you are here in late August because it seems you are rather prepared to continue to ask until the end of your days, or mine.
However, the restaurant you suggested, Capitol House, is a stuck-up establishment riding on the coattails of a bygone reputation for good steaks frequented by tourists reading outdated guidebooks and high school students before prom.
I’ll meet you at Harry Browne’s on August 31 at 6:00 pm sharp.
I won’t stay past 8:00 because I don’t drive in the dark.
Regards,
Sybil Van Antwerp