Reaching a new decade of life in a state of good or even reasonable health is always a milestone worth celebrating, quietly or otherwise. As a close mate likes to say, “Life is there to be lived, so get on with it.”
It’s a maxim which takes on even greater significance as years start to stack up. But there are those inanely immovable and somewhat insensitive authorities who can make ‘getting on with it’ decidedly difficult for active and capable people at the veteran end of experience. Transport for NSW is one of those authorities.
What follows will be no doubt viewed by some as nothing more than a whinge by an aging journalist with a capacity for candid commentary. True enough perhaps, but