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Originally Posted by slayda
I think I'm a #2, except when I have to bend over to do something like cut my toenails or when my back or knees hurt. Then I guess I'm a #1.  |
Oh hell .... I've had a hard time cutting my own toenails for years. Nothing to do with my weight and everything to do with the fact that I have zero flexibility.
I was the one kid on the playground that could not do a summersalt to save my life. Couldn't touch my damn toes even when I was a skinny little kid. Couldn't do either of those things during the period that I was in my peak shape, body fat 12 percent and able to bench press more than my body weight. My body is simply not made to do those things, and never will be.
It still chaps my hide that everyone expects children to all be able to perform the same physically. Some kids can run .... some can't. I had exercise induced asthma (well, pretty much anything induced asthma in me), and when the teachers would force me to do laps (because I failed so miserably at gymnastic exercises), I would generally end up unconscious with my face in the dirt and bronchial spasms suffocating me.
Ah well .... maybe a year or so ago, I was speaking with a girl (maybe 12 or 13) who was really upset at the grief she was getting from the adults, about her looks, her weight, her grades .... you name it. I left her with the best advise I could possibly give her ...
Just keep in mind that statistically, you have a great chance of outliving the bastards and, when they are dead, you can dance on their graves.