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Overheard while running this morning

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This morning I went for a run at the local college outdoor track; there's mix of "walkers" and "runners" who use it.
I ran passed two women and a young boy who was maybe 5 years old; they were walking in the outer lanes.
I kept a steady pace and eventually I ran passed them for a second time. When I passed them the second time the little boy announces to his mom "that OLD MAN just passed you again mommy" :eek:nthego:
I smiled to myself as I kept going and thought "hey, that little kid just insulted me":arms:
 
A few years ago I was hoeing about a half acre of Indian corn (1830s Old Sturbridge Village). A family comes to the fence, and the mother says "You look like you should be retired! Why do you work so hard, out in the hot sun?"

I smile and say "It keeps me strong and good looking".

Daughter, about ten, says "But it's not working."

sigh
 
:lol:
 
Young and old are relative terms. The kids my oldest niece works with are school age so her late 20s are old to some. And for me, to someone 80 I may still be a young fellow while to someone 40, I'm their parents...
 
Age is just a number. No one can believe how old I am. 86, will turn 87 in November unless Covid-19 gets me. My only secret is to keep doing all the things (or most of them) that I've been doing all my life, including messing with these ridiculous cars. Plus I'm still working.
 
Thank you.

That makes me feel Young at 71 almost a kid. Still working some and these ridicules cars do help.

David
 
Orbit number seventy will be complete for me next week. Still a viable tech, R&R'd an 86 year old pal's MGB radiator for an aluminum one on Friday, still have computer network clients. May take my "vintage" Connelly 65" slalom ski out for a go, to celebrate! We'll see...

At 16 and 40:

thompsonSki.jpg
ConnellySki.jpg
 
Happy pre-Birthday. We all have skills and talents and as long as we can use them then age doesnā€™t matter.
If you go slalom we want pics!
 
I had no idea. On one ski? What next? I waterskied once in my life in Nantucket harbor. Stiff as a board because I can't swim, I stiff-legged my way around the harbor until I motioned that I had enough. I almost drowned as a kid and hated the water ever since.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Only if he face-plants...
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May be inevitable! :devilgrin:

pd said:
I had no idea. On one ski? What next? I waterskied once in my life in Nantucket harbor. Stiff as a board because I can't swim, I stiff-legged my way around the harbor until I motioned that I had enough. I almost drowned as a kid and hated the water ever since.
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I started skiing at about age 11, snow and water. Taught to water ski by a Cypress Gardens exhibition skier. Have "liberated" $20 bills from folk who bet I couldn't ski on a Mohawk canoe paddle... :smirk:
 
DavidApp said:
Bare foot skiing?

Working in Germany a few years ago they had the World Bare foot Skiing championship. Teams from all over the world.

David


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCIO6Fe2rRE
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Oh boy... don't give doc any ideas what-so-ever about bare anything skiing. Next thing you know he will post a pic of himself bareas skimming over the water :scared:
 
anarchy99 said:
Probably legal in Florida as long as hes wearing a mask... and that's itļ˜
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:lol:

Well, Herself has put the skiing idea off the schedule. I've got an issue with the inter-ocular lens in my right eye, called a "subluxation". The lens has shifted out of position. I've a refracted "ghost" image below the normal, focused one. Waiting for the virus to subside before I can have the corrective procedure done. In the meantime I'm not to do anything that may further the dislocation. Impact from a skiing fall is included... I'm not happy over it, either. :mad:
 
A good decision doc... for you and us :devilgrin:
 
My Wife overheard me talking to an old friend,when I told him I'm
looking for another motorcycle.She "disagreed" with me on that matter.
I've since decided that I really shouldn't get one,as A - I haven't
ridden in about 30 years,& B- The biggest danger is not me,but all of those
really bad drivers we have around here.
 
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