I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

The line is a compact joke about retirement, leisure, and the psychology of work. Perret frames “waking up and not having to go to work” as a small, repeatable pleasure—then heightens it with the absurd claim that he does it “three or four times a day,” implying he goes back to sleep just to re-experience the relief. The humor depends on exaggeration and on a shared cultural assumption that work is an obligation one escapes rather than a calling. Beneath the gag is a wry comment on how strongly schedules and employment structure daily life: freedom is felt most sharply in the moment one realizes the day is one’s own.