I thought I was so tough 25 to 40 yrs ago. You don’t reall y get tough till you wake up with a hip hurting so much you can’t sleep in any position. It takes at least an hour and maybe two to remember what it was you do to hurt it. Finally it dawns on you two days ago you were pulling on something and you felt a little hitch in your hip when you gave it a little more azz to get it rolling. That little hitch comes back a couple of days later and takes nearly a week to stop hurting. Not to mention the general old knee, shoulder, or neck joint grinding and popping like a sheet of bubble wrap when you rotate them. Broken fingered and toes from old sports or the bed post at 2 am. The young are pansies they just don’t know it.

“It’s enough to make a man feel sour. Burning minutes every day by the hour. Just to end up gone like everything else.”