I Will Go To Jail Instead of a Nursing Home

During lunch I announced when I retire I am going to go to jail. What? Jail, I repeated. I will rob a bank or something. The three others laughed. Think about it, I told them. How much do nursing homes cost? They started to think about it and discussed how much they Were already paying for their own mothers $4,500 a month $8,000 a month, $10,000 a month. Jail is free right? To the prisoner anyway, not to the rest of us. I could play cards, make lots of new friends, and maybe write poetry New story ideas I’ll bet, maybe some really juicy new story ideas! My family would save thousands of dollars, maybe even tens of thousands Of dollars. How would you get in? I would rob a bank, I told them. No one laughed. They were thinking….. Then all three burst out laughing. I could! I insisted, convincing no one, not even myself.