Time takes on a life of its’ own in The Villages.\u00a0\u00a0 I think we all, at one time or another, thought that when we retired we would never have to watch the clock again.\u00a0\u00a0Surprise, we still do, however some things have changed.\u00a0 We\u00a0no longer need an alarm clock to\u00a0wake us up.\u00a0 We just wake up on our own… usually very early.\u00a0 If you are out\u00a0and about\u00a0in the morning,\u00a0you will see \u00a0a beehive of activity; \u00a0people walking, jogging, roller blading, bicycling.\u00a0\u00a0 Lights are needed on golf carts, not for the evening, but for the morning.\u00a0Two things happened recently that made me realize time is different now.\u00a0 I called for an appointment \u00a0to have my car serviced, and I asked for a morning appointment.\u00a0 They said how about 7:00am?\u00a0\u00a0It had me wondering, if \u00a07:00 am is a morning appointment, what is an early morning appointment?\u00a0 As I jotted down the appointment I had gotten, I wrote 9:30 A.M..\u00a0 Did I really have to write A.M.?\u00a0 Doesn’t everyone know that 9:00 P.M. is midnight in The Villages?\u00a0 It is.\u00a0 Even with both town squares jumping with music and lively dancers every evening, at 9:00 P.M. the music stops and within minutes everyone is gone.\u00a0\u00a0 Recently Sean’s sons and a friend\u00a0were here for a visit and they could not get over how everyone disappeared after 9:00 P.M.\u00a0 One time I stayed out until 11:00 P.M. playing cards and I drove from Liberty Park to Rio Ponderosa and never saw one car.\u00a0 It is about a 15 minute ride.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine that you could drive anywhere for 15 minutes and not see a car.\u00a0 A couple of years ago my sons were visiting and they were staying at The Waterfront Inn.\u00a0 After enjoying themselves all day they headed back to the Inn.\u00a0 My younger son Pete, invites his brother to come into his room for awhile.\u00a0 Joe declined the invitation saying he was tired and wanted to go to bed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Joe, it is only 8:30 PM!\u00a0 See it really is true, even for\u00a0the young and old, 9:00 P.M. is really Midnight in\u00a0The Villages. \u00a0<\/p>\n
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Time takes on a life of its’ own in The Villages.\u00a0\u00a0 I think we all, at one time or another, thought that when we retired we would never have to watch the clock again.\u00a0\u00a0Surprise, we still do, however some things have changed.\u00a0 We\u00a0no longer need an alarm clock to\u00a0wake us up.\u00a0 We just wake up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}