Tuesday’s loose thread
Having nothing to do at home, and being arrived at the happy age when a man can be idle with impunity, he took his place once more on the bench at the inn-door, and was reverenced as one of the patriarchs of the village and a chronicle of the old times "before the war."
-- From Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving.
Idle with impunity or otherwise, your stories and opinions welcome here.