As Ian Sees It

 I was very fortunate in choosing a career that allowed me to retire at a fairly early age.  Of course the whole police universe is pretty much a young persons game,  and I won't lie, there are many many times it would have likely been healthier for me to have moved on to a different career fourteen or fifteen years before I did.  But I joined the police force in part because I was not much of an academic and any attempt at a University education would have meant more years of an already prolonged grade school career to (lets face it) blow a bunch of money on what would have likely been half a  semester of skipped classes, late nights, questionable hygiene, and all the things that make a great spring break movie. My mother was a war bride from Glasgow.  My dad was a farmer from Manitoba.  My dad's first experience with travel was in 1939 when global war broke out.  Dad saw it as a way to get off the farm.  So he signed up, and took his first ...