"But that's okay because my wife's name is Bonnie," jokes Hazelton.

Currently Hazelton is working at No Frills in Brighton but his nine-to-five routine job doesn't mean his life is routine. He has led, by anyone's standard, a pretty interesting life. Since Hazelton's retirement he has done a great deal of travelling, from Florida to the Bahamas and all over the United States.

When circumstances conspired to prevent Hazelton from travelling this winter he says the thought of staying in one place for too long had him climbing the walls. So he decided to find something else to fill in his time.

"For me, in my situation, it's an incredibly fun job. The people are good, the customers are friendly, and it's a great job," he says.

"I laugh about a lot of the things. For instance, when I'm on clean-up in aisle six or the first time I was put on carts, going out into the parking lot to get the carts, I thought it was just great. I kidded that it was a promotion 'Hey I got a promotion. I'm on carts now,'" he says.

"It's fun. The job is fun and I'm working with other retired guys and women and mostly we're all just here because it's something to keep us occupied. Brings in a little money, pays for the groceries, and it has been a great thing to keep me going this winter. This No Frills thing is a great adventure," he says.

Hazelton is an adventurer at heart.

"Our style is to always be doing something new," he says.

"When I retired in June 2005, my wife and I basically took off. We strangely enough live on our sailboat year round, which I was doing while I was teaching. We left right away for that summer and sailed. Our ultimate destination was Mystic, Connecticut," he says.

Hazelton says that after his nine-week sailing trip he came home and bought a recreational vehicle. He says he then went to Texas and all over the southern United States.

"We spent the whole winter basically riding around in this RV," he says.

Hazelton's other adventures include Cuba and a year-long-trip to the Bahamas where he sailed with his wife.

"It takes 30 hours or so to sail across the Gulf Stream," he says.

"Then it came to the third year (of retirement) which is this current winter and the boat had to come out of the water because I need to do some basic repairs that you do every couple years," Hazelton says.

"So we couldn't live on the boat because it was out of the water. We were lucky enough to have friends who wanted to travel for the winter so we took over their house; we're house-sitting for this winter. So now I'm faced with house-sitting. I can't go away because I have a responsibility to look after this house," he says.

"Well I just couldn't face sitting around staring at the walls so I got myself a job here at No Frills," says Hazelton.

Hazelton was born in Montreal but moved to Toronto when he was three years old. He spent most of his childhood in Toronto but moved to Burlington, Ont., about half-way through high school.

"When I graduated university I got hired by the Ministry of Correctional Services, which is prisons," says Hazelton.

"I worked for them for 17 years all together, in many different places. I worked with youths for six or eight years. Then I worked at an adult facility. I ended up being the superintendent of Brantford jail," Hazelton says.

That's when Hazelton's life took an educational turn; one that Hazelton attributes to a chance encounter.

"I went to a retirement dinner for a former boss in Cobourg. I happened to sit at a table with a dean from Loyalist College," he says.

"He was there presenting this retiree with an award from Loyalist and I was there just to celebrate this guy's retirement. I got talking to the dean and he said he was looking for somebody with a varied correctional background to teach corrections," says Hazelton.

"So the next day I sent him a résumé - mostly just on a whim. Two weeks later I got the job," he says.

Hazelton taught at Loyalist College for 20 years, and it is a time that he remembers fondly.

"I got along great with the students. I think they responded well to me. That was the thing that made the job great," says Hazelton.

Hazelton said he knows many other former educators who have taken the same sort of part-time job. He says he knows another professor who works at a No Frills in Belleville.

Registered nurse in mind and wellness services, Valerie Geen, says it's no surprise that so many retirees are taking up jobs.

"People like to work, and it's good to be in a workplace. It's interesting and it can be thrilling, and I've seen the same thing where people retire and then they're back in a different workplace. I think it keeps people healthy," says Geen.

She says that a part-time job can be a sort of transition for retirees.

"When you leave a life that is Monday to Friday, nine to five, you're not quite ready to have no structure in your life," Geen says.

But Hazelton's lust for travel and thirst for experience are driving him away even now.

"I'm taking two weeks off. Good Friday we're going down to Blue Jays spring training. We're going to catch a couple games and we're going to visit a couple friends we have down there. We'll be lying around on beaches sitting in the sun. It should be great. Then this summer, May 11 I think it is, is the day the boat gets launched. We move back onto our boat for the summer and we start sailing again," says Hazelton.