quite a few of you, to be sure, seem to rather like my occasional comments regarding the unnecessary plight i face in trying to secure a pension. just like many of you, look you see, i have elected to invest in the "National Lottery" pension, for it seems to offer the greatest rewards for the smallest of investments. although increasingly it seems the catch to that "sounds too good to be true" scenario is that they never actually pay out to more than a small select group of investors.
no matter, in respect of the latter. i press on, then, in the hope that this rather exciting sounding pension fund eventually pays out so that i may enjoy whatever old age, or older i suppose, years i get. indeed, yes, my passion for cigarettes probably means not so many of those years, but i will take what i get given.
one of the few things more frustrating that the National Lottery Pension Fund never ever seeming to pay out is when you can't obtain suitable confirmation that they are not going to pay you out. normally one wishes to check these things as soon as possible, early in the morning the day after they have determined who is and who is not to retire.
checking the results later on has all sorts of problems. firstly, you can end up daydreaming that you might have actually won. also, if you go and do a full day's verk (or close enough) and then discover you're actually now a millionaire, you are going to feel very silly and it will tarnish the payout. not tarnish a great deal, i suppose, but cast shadows all the same.
but no. as you can see, on one fine morning when i went on to check that i probably was off to verk that day, i got no confirmation. instead, just a message from the pension fund administrators, saying that they had broken their internet thing and that.
about the only good thing of these mid-week lottery draws is that they offer a chance for one to retire before a Friday. this enables one to skip a lot of silly bother with regards to matters such as drinks, farewell speeches and the presentation of golden clocks.
surprisingly, as it happens, it turns out that when they had fixed their internet and what have you, lo and behold i had not secure the correct pension fund numbers enabling me to retire. this i had presumed somewhere in advance, but it is always nice to know for sure.
yes, i shall press on with all of this, until someone can show me a better approach that does not cost any more than this one.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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