Are you free next thursday?
Yeah, why, is there something going on Thursday?
A bunch of us in the office are planning a retiring party for Bob, he's been with the office for ages, so everyone was really surprised to hear he took early retirement.
Bob is retiring, wow. . . that's news to me, I had no idea Bob was that old, retirement's still sixty-five, right?
Retirement age is still 65, but I think more and more people are retiring earlier, I think Bob's in upper fifties already, he just looks pretty young.
Wow. . . I thought he was early forty stops, why would he want to retire so soon?