100 year old man dies, missed only 1 day in 72 years of work

**Scottwax** · 04-14-2006, 09:24 PM

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines

Arthur Winston, who set a remarkable personal record by missing only a single day in 72 years of work, died of congestive heart failure Thursday as he slept in his South Los Angeles home. He was 100.

Many of his colleagues and friends honored him by calling him Mr. Winston. He cleaned Los Angeles buses and trains for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The only shift he missed was the day in 1988 that his wife died.

Otherwise, said his bosses at the MTA, they had never known him to arrive for work late or to leave work early. He didn`t retire until March 23 one day after he turned 100

Why then?

"Oh," he said with a shrug, "100 years seemed like enough."

:xyxthumbs

:sadwavey:

**Setec Astronomy** · 04-14-2006, 09:29 PM

Holy crap! He died only 3 weeks after retiring? I guess he should have kept working. Some guys are like sharks, if they stop swimming, they die.

**SpoiledMan** · 04-14-2006, 10:18 PM

When he was retiring there was a lot of media regarding it. MTA gave him a "lifetime" pass to use their transportation services. Looks like it turned out to be one of the least costly retirement benefits!

**wytstang** · 04-15-2006, 07:21 AM

Wow now thats an employee R.I.P

**Tasty** · 04-15-2006, 08:55 AM

Wow, you know they just don`t make people like that anymore. At least not as much.

**Scottwax** · 04-15-2006, 12:38 PM

I thought my younger son was doing well...as a junior in high school, he has not missed a single day of school. 5 more weeks plus his senior year and he makes it all the way from kindergarten through high school with perfect attendence....59 years shy of Mr. Winston`s longevity!

**Spilchy** · 04-15-2006, 01:47 PM

I saw this guy on the news a month ago - pretty amazing.

I thought I did well when I went 8 years without missing a day of work or taking a vacation.

**percynjpn** · 04-16-2006, 07:29 AM

Originally Posted by Scottwax

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines

Arthur Winston, who set a remarkable personal record by missing only a single day in 72 years of work, died of congestive heart failure Thursday as he slept in his South Los Angeles home. He was 100.

Many of his colleagues and friends honored him by calling him Mr. Winston. He cleaned Los Angeles buses and trains for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The only shift he missed was the day in 1988 that his wife died.

Otherwise, said his bosses at the MTA, they had never known him to arrive for work late or to leave work early. He didn`t retire until March 23 one day after he turned 100

Why then?

"Oh," he said with a shrug, "100 years seemed like enough."

:xyxthumbs

:sadwavey:

I read about him on the FoxNews site - very impressive gentleman!

Many of his colleagues and friends honored him by calling him Mr. Winston.

I`m wondering though, is addressing a 100 year-old man as "Mr. ***** " meant to "honor"

him is some special way? I thought it was just common sense and courtesy for people much younger to have the manners to address older folks in that way - :nixweiss. I guess I`m out of touch with modern American sensibilities.

**imported_Picus** · 04-16-2006, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by Scottwax

I thought my younger son was doing well...as a junior in high school, he has not missed a single day of school. 5 more weeks plus his senior year and he makes it all the way from kindergarten through high school with perfect attendence....59 years shy of Mr. Winston`s longevity!

That`s definitely something to be proud of. :up to your son (and his parents

)