Ah, yes. The Scared Straight, Couch Potato Edition. A classic at my house.

Spoiler alert, it doesn’t get any better. I need to do more yoga and cross training 🫩

I love them

I’ve had to come to terms with taking things slower than I used to. I learned the hard way that I can’t just train for a 10k in a few weekends.

The rule of increasing distance/duration by 10% per week is to protect our joints/bones/etc when they ain’t what they used to be.

Saved this comment. Thank you, this is a great way to reframe a lot of things I struggle with.

It’s like a lap that never gets up and doesn’t have knobby knees. I love it!

So stately

Thousand mile stare with the tongue out

I never thought of myself as prude until now 🫣

To anyone wondering why: they’re more akin to large cotton pads than toilet paper. They don’t break down.

Over time it’s like flushing a bag of t-shirts and wondering why your pipes get clogged. Draino ain’t fixing that.

There’s a payphone by one of the elementary schools here. I wonder if it’s more likely that a kid without a cellphone is more likely to use it?

I recently got a tablet so I could take handwritten notes during meetings. I thought I’d use it for a bunch of other stuff but I do not.

Not to mention, the OCR handwriting recognition my handwriting is really bad.

After every meal, whether I like it or not

These exist! Sometimes with a small fee but not as expensive as renting

This could also indicate a food sensitivity if you’re reacting a lot worse to one type of alcohol (everything else held constant, obvs)

Earned their stripes 🫡

Collective hopelessness

Neat. And thanks to Marilyn Manson, we’re still on target to maintain an average of 12 pairs of ribs pp

Same. I was gifted a book called the “myth of multitasking”… I feel like I don’t need to read it to get the gist.

Why does this feel like an advertisement?