Tsk, tsk. You don't collect your pension or gold watches, or drink alcohol, etc. You pay someone else your pension, give away a gold watch, and un-drink the alcohol.
He didn't say that time flowed backwards, just the order of major life events. And you'd start out collecting your pension out of the nursing home, and give it up when you start working.
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