At 01:05 AM 12/30/02 +0000, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 29 Dec 2002 at 18:39, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:> steep. Anyone who lives at the top of the street and rides a bicycle > either pushes it the last few hundred feet or must have some inhumanly > well-developed leg muscles (and I haven't seen any neighbors who meet > that description--in fact, a good number of them are older than I am > and are subject to the frailties of age). This is why I prefer skates to a bike... (parents house is on a hill)
I can just see some of these people--who are in their 60s, 70s, and up (though many are in good shape for their age�)--trying to skate up this hill.
NOT.
;-)
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�FWIW, my stepmother lives across the street, is 81, and goes for a walk around the neighborhood every day (weather permitting). And prepared a big meal for the whole family who gathered at her house on Wednesday. And is generally more independent and self-sufficient than a lot of people twenty years younger. In fact, she works with Meals-on-Wheels and other charity-type things to help some of those other people. And her house (the same size as mine) is immaculate, while I basically have trails to get from one room to another through all the accumulated detritus of an academic life. And she was still working part time staying with sick people in their homes (she was a nurse for many years) as recently as a few months ago (she may still be doing so, but she hasn't mentioned anything about it to me recently).
--Ronn! :)
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