Party Poopers

What is it with retiring nurses? Why won't they come to their own retirement parties? A few days I wrote a post about a retiring coworker who didn't give us any advance notice that she was leaving, making it hard for us, well, actually impossible for us to give her a party on her last day at work.

Now, another nurse has retired. We knew she was leaving, so a party was organized, a special cake was ordered and then at the last minute she came up with some feeble excuse for not coming. The picture is of her cake.

Is it us they hate or can they not stand the thought of coming back to the hospital for even their own party? In a way, though, I understand. I'm not sure I will tell anyone when I retire either, just because I hate good-byes (and the hospital and a few, no, a lot of other things). Is anyone else contemplating secret retirements?