Around the Square with Butch Furse
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Butch Furse
We’ve been told by health authorities that as we get older we don’t walk as much as when we were younger. As we’ve gotten older and observing our current walking habits I think some those health experts’ observations of seniors are wrong.
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t catch myself walking throughout the house backtracking something I simply had misplaced... or more politely, “ just temporarily lost.” My personal walking exercises get more strenuous when I head down the steps to my basement office, arrive there, and can’t remember the reason why I was going down there in the first place. As soon as I head back up the steps to our main floor my “lightbulb” then goes off and I remember thus necessitating the second trip to the basement.
This virus thing of wearing a mask when leaving home has also added to my walking more. I use my car to drive up town and keep my mask in the car so I don’t forget the mask when I need it. However, that doesn’t prevent me from leaving it in the car prior to entering a business and then making extra steps back to the car for the forgotten mask.
The Betterhalf has tried to cool my frustration and concerns of remembrance. It just didn’t make me feel any better when she said it was a characteristic of “getting old.” I countered by telling her it does a guy a lot of good knowing he’s “getting older even faster” with plenty of that unwilling exercise taking many unnecessary steps.
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We came across some old thoughts made years ago and it’s amusing how they still apply to our lifestyles that are claimed to be changing all the time. Unfortunately the originators of the following observations were never identified. We feel these statements need to be remembered:
Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
He who hesitates is lost, but miles from the next exit.
Better that a girl has beauty than brains because boys see better than they think.
Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
Remember that a kick in the rear is a step forward.
The three stages of a man’s life: 1. He believes in Santa Claus; 2. He doesn’t believe in Santa Claus; 3. He is Santa Claus.
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
