You seemed to ninja-quote before I posted the addition in the edit.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Oh that last part says it all. I suffer from the same thing on the no I don't need help. Let me just find a work around. Because you know picking up 18 kg of water is no big deal with a hurt arm. (A 20 liter jug of water. Hubby was not amused when he got home.
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Stuff like that, indeed.
I visit, dad walks around like a cripple.
"What happened? What's wrong?"
- "Nothing."
After badgering him, he confesses he's moved a 30 kg bag of bird sand/seed into his aviary. Again. (He's been breeding birds for 50 years, one of the things he still cares about, and stuff like sand and seed is delivered at home by a specialized bird store.) The aviary is in the back of the garden, about 50m away from the house.
Just get yourself a trolley, put the sack on it or better, shove the trolley under it, and wheel it into the aviary. Suggesting it just begets anger.
WHY does he think it's a good idea, lifting a 30 kg sack on his shoulders at 78, carrying it 50 meters if he*knows* it'll make you walk like a cripple for five days? Why not use the solution of getting a €25 trolley which will last the rest of his life and ease that task considerably?
I don't understand. Is using a trolley at his age some sort of a loss of manliness to him or something? I can only tell you that if *I* had to move a sack like that every 10-14 days for that distance, *I* would be using a trolley even though I'm just in my mid-thirties and can lift 30 kgs with ease.