"Were you perhaps canned?"
Ha! another thing that almost never happens, unless of course you leave early. Most of your career was probably spent making sure that none of your peers left a minute before they were supposed to.
No, I quit because I decided a socialist system in which people got paid for existing, rather than performing was not for me.
You look a gift horse in the mouth. You should be more grateful to the people that allow you to retire in the style to which you almost certainly do not deserve based on the work you did as a civil servant.
You were saying.............?.