A shopkeeper Roy Kharbanda has finally retired after working for 38 years without a single day off , and joked that he is looking forward to finally getting to know his wife. He refused to ever take a break, running the store that he bought in 1982 in Southampton, Hampshire, seven days a week for 13,416 days straight.
Roy worked 12 hour days every day except Sunday, when he would put in a 10 hour shift, even opening for an hour every Christmas Day. The father-of-three says he was driven by a desire to give his daughters the best education that he could afford and looked on holidays as a waste of time. Now his children have become a doctor, an engineer and a lawyer, Roy has finally stepped away from the shop he took over aged just 24.
The grandfather of three joked that he was looking forward to finally getting to know his wife Shashi with whom he was planning their first ever holiday together after 39 years of marriage. “People think I’m crazy,” he said. “I have lived for my children. My view is that everything comes and goes. You can have holidays but they come and go. Education is forever.”
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