100-year-old Briton keeps on working...

rostasi · September 5, 2006

[if you click on the link and look at this guys' picture,

you will not believe he is 100 years old! Incredible.]

100-year-old Briton keeps on working 'to avoid boredom'

Fri Sep 1, 8:36 AM ET

Britain's oldest worker has enjoyed a day off to

celebrate his 100th birthday but explained he would

become a "miserable sod" if he ever had to retire for

good.

"Buster" Martin, a mechanic for a south London

plumbing firm who has 17 children and 70 grandchildren

and great grandchildren, tried giving up work at the

age of 97 but couldn't face the boredom.

"Boredom is a big killer of men," he told the Daily

Telegraph. "I went back to work because I like to keep

active," adding that if he ever retired he would

become "the most miserable sod you have come across."

The centenarian, who grew up in an orphanage and first

married when he was 14, joined the Grenadier Guards

and served in World War II before switching to the Navy.

In more recent years he worked on London market

stalls. He now lives in south London, where one of his

few concessions to modern technology is a television.

"I have never in my life owned a phone -- they are a

bloody nuisance," he said. "You can be sitting

peacefully indoors and they start ringing. I hate them."

Neither is he too keen on foreign holidays. "You are

only going to spend a lot of money to go over and do

the same things you would do here," he told the daily.

"I am living a holiday here. I wake up every morning

and am happy in what I do."

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