Reality Checks

[bigscoop]

Got one this weekend. A while back my son asked me to help him roof his house and I said, "Sure, no problem. Roofed many a house in my day. Piece of cake!"

"Yesterday I came home so sore I didn't think I was going to be able to help him finish today. Today I'm much better off, just came home stiff as a tree and nearly numb from the waist down!"

Reality Check......."Not as young as I use to be, or as young as I think I am."

 

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[DigginThePast]

Got one this weekend. A while back my son asked me to help him roof his house and I said, "Sure, no problem. Roofed many a house in my day. Piece of cake!"

"Yesterday I came home so sore I didn't think I was going to be able to help him finish today. Today I'm much better off, just came home stiff as a tree and nearly numb from the waist down!"

Reality Check......."Not as young as I use to be, or as young as I think I am."

Yeah, hate it when that happens. Ooo, gonna go use that one in the "Things I Hate" thread, don't hate me for it.

 

[Chug And Red]

Nooooooooooooooooooo Not the Roofing Thing!!!! 5 years Experience and will not put it on my resume!!!! the less they know the better!!! Chug

 

[spartacus53]

I share your pain, spent half the day as a contortionist under the dash of a Japanese car. (removed a dead mouse for a friend of my daughter)

I think you may have disconnected the horn system there buddy

Bigscoop, that was a great gesture helping your son, but I would have taken a different approach.

1- Set up small lawn chair & table, complete with a cooler of drinks.
2- Sit in said chair and give directions through my directors bullhorn

 

[bigscoop]

I share your pain, spent half the day as a contortionist under the dash of a Japanese car. (removed a dead mouse for a friend of my daughter)

I think you may have disconnected the horn system there buddy

Bigscoop, that was a great gesture helping your son, but I would have taken a different approach.

1- Set up small lawn chair & table, complete with a cooler of drinks.
2- Sit in said chair and give directions through my directors bullhorn

Oh yes, that will be the plan the next time!

 

[Blacksheep]

I share your pain, spent half the day as a contortionist under the dash of a Japanese car. (removed a dead mouse for a friend of my daughter)

I think you may have disconnected the horn system there buddy

Bigscoop, that was a great gesture helping your son, but I would have taken a different approach.

1- Set up small lawn chair & table, complete with a cooler of drinks.
2- Sit in said chair and give directions through my directors bullhorn

Double checked the horn, ask me about the carpet, you know, the cheap crap molded/stretched and curls up under the
gas pedal when removed? Yea, good times...fingers are still bent at odd angle's.

 

[truckinbutch]

I share your pain, spent half the day as a contortionist under the dash of a Japanese car. (removed a dead mouse for a friend of my daughter)

I think you may have disconnected the horn system there buddy

Bigscoop, that was a great gesture helping your son, but I would have taken a different approach.

1- Set up small lawn chair & table, complete with a cooler of drinks.
2- Sit in said chair and give directions through my directors bullhorn

Spart , you are such a like minded individual . I add rule #3 :
Don't tell them they are doing it wrong , in your opinion .
You then got to put down the drink and bullhorn , get up out of your chair , and climb up there to 'show
them the right way'.
Ain't worth the effort and pain thet ensues .

 

[Dano Sverige]

At the doc's for tests, they said "jump on the exercise bike for us please."
No problem! Rode bikes for years.
I lasted exactly 2 mins 20 secs....then promptly had a"minor heart attack" and fell off! = Reality check!

 

[bigscoop]

Feeling much better this morning. I can actually feel my legs, knees, ribs, shoulders, ankles, hips, feet, thighs, lower back, hands & fingers.

The good news..........I never struck my thumb with the hammer even once! Yep,...I still got it baby!

 

[fossis]

I feel your pain, my Son asked me to help paint the inside of a 3,000 square foot house, it was the hottest summer I have ever seen, no electric yet, my knees were 'talking to me' after walking up & down the ladder for several days.

Fossis..........

 

[bigscoop]

I feel your pain, my Son asked me to help paint the inside of a 3,000 square foot house, it was the hottest summer I have ever seen, no electric yet, my knees were 'talking to me' after walking up & down the ladder for several days.

Fossis..........

It's all perspective. If you never spilled the paint....."you still got it baby!"

 

[bigscoop]

The good news..........I never struck my thumb with the hammer even once! Yep,...I still got it baby!
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Spoke too soon! (Got it two times today roofing the garage. )

 

[Seamuss]

When I go rock hounding or prospecting, I sling rock and dirt around like I'm thirty years old(I'll be 63 in november).
I do this because of my inner child tells me to.
I believe that I should do more from experience then when I was younger to keep that youthfull feeling.
The reality of my body saying,"Slow down peckerwood",hits home after a few hours of my mind saying, one more shovel full, over and over.
The reality of my body saying stop or get that case of, "My get up and go, got up and went" sets in.
I can get all the rest that I need when I got really old, as compared to my present age.
My rocking chair is a three legged camping chair in the woods when I take a break from digging to clean my gear.