When does this "getting old" thing stop getting old?

POSTED BY: Stegasaurus
UPDATED: Monday, July 4, 2011 04:25
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NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:12 AM

Dude, just think about the alternative: get a flower, lie on your back, fold your hands over your chest, put the flower on top. Wait a while. BORING!

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:57 AM

I was thinkin more along the lines of Highlander/immortals/Nori and Orin. Your proposal does indeed sound "terrible dull"

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:30 AM

Steg.

That was funny. Very gentlemanly of you to share. You reminded me of that Laurel and Hardy sketch where they are both butlers for a very wealthy socialite who is holding a fancy dinner do.

Anyway they have these enormous elaborate dishes that they have to 'butle' from the kitchen to the dinning room. Only there's this Banana skin (which if I recall correctly Laurel deposited on the floor after eating the banana). Now I'm sure you know what happened next, but the really funny thing is that even after slipping on, said Banana skin, and landing face first into the roast or the cake or the jelly, they continue to just fling this banana skin in anger at one another instead of picking it up! and so continued the slapstick! It's incredibly funny, and you really brought that all back to me. So I laughed even more.

However comedy aside. Sorry about your back. Not pleasant back pains. Be well.

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STEGASAURUS

Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:05 AM

Last time I pulled my back out was almost as comedic. Came running down the stairs to answer my wife's question (we don't yell across the house type thing) and stepped directly on one of Maddox's magnetic fridge letters. Pain immediately ensued and I missed my step. Trying to compensate, I stepped down wrong with my as yet undamaged leg, and my knee buckled backwards. No knee = no leg to support weight, so I started a neat little dive toward the dining room. At thismpoint, everything seemed to be going in slow motion, and I could plainly see I was heading for the corner edge of the table.

Using what I learned from the miriad Kung-Fu movies I've watched throughout my life, I decided to twist my body in such a way that would allow me to save myself great bodily harm. Of course, what goes through one's mind is not always what happens (and generally so for me). I wrenched my back something fierce, and managed to crack my mellon on the table leg. At least Maddox crawled over to me and gave me a hug and a couple pats on my back that time.

From that day on, I always shout my answer across the house.

As far as my age, don't base that on my child's age. Had my first daughter while I was in the Marine Corps over 20 years ago, and my second daughter 16 years ago. Maddox wasn't an "oops" baby, but I will admit that my wife and I hadn't expected the kind of physical drain it would be this time around.

Oh, and the iPads aren't wasteful at all. We have very specific uses for them, and mine is mostly for work (when I'm not laid up in bed). The multiple TVs around the house are an accumulation over 20+ years and instead of sending them to the landfill, I fix them and reuse them.

-Steg

SERYN

Friday, July 1, 2011 4:39 AM

If it helps, i've managed to go arse over tit twice in the last few weeks, both times involving steps. The first time wearing bed sock fer pitys sakes. Bustling down the stairs, my foot decided, with the socks full complicity, to go disappearing of the edge of the step and i descend the remaining five or so steps on my backside before hitting the wall at the bottom.
Marvellous thing being that this was ten minutes before I had to leave for a 7 hour journey on a National Express bus. Joy of Joys.

So bruised bum overcome, my next trick was to step out of the bathroom and find the only patch of water in the whole place and go sliding away. One foot ends up out in front wedged under the fridge (the nutjob who onwed the place before us decided it would be just fab to have the bathroom lead directly off the kitchen) other foot ends up behind me wedged knee to ankle under the welsh dresser and my back ends up thwacking the endwall that forms the storage nook.

My problem is I have to put it down to something but which is worse? Old age or terminal ineptitude?

KAREL

Saturday, July 2, 2011 2:00 AM

At 37, I knew that I wasn't 20 anymore. At 43, I knew that I wasn't 30 anymore. At 49, I know I'm not 39 anymore. *extrapolates* This does not bode well. *snort*

"Whatever is wrong with you is so right for me." -- Marillion.

CHRISISALL

Sunday, July 3, 2011 11:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stegasaurus:
Had my first daughter while I was in the Marine Corps over 20 years ago

That explains your sense of humour over this- normal folk get sad & angry over accidents like the stairs thing you describe- Marines & kung-fu peeps can goof on it.

I've had a bad back since my teens, so when it hurts today, I feel YOUNG!!!!

My advice: take the stairs two at a time; this will satisfy your need to go quickly, but will increase your awareness of each step in case of kid junk. It's also good exercise.

The laughing Chrisisall

ISROUSRO

Monday, July 4, 2011 12:34 AM

There is only one alternative to getting older.

passoniatetly indifferent

STEGASAURUS

Monday, July 4, 2011 4:25 AM

Getting younger? Sign me up!!

-Steg

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