RDP Saturday – SQUAT
Squat. Once upon a time, it was a thing. Now, it’s “fall on your ass” time. A squat and a collapse are indivisible.
I go down that low? I fall over. Unless I have something solid with which to pull myself back up? I’m going to stay there until someone comes by to offer me a hand.
But the dogs really enjoy having me on the floor. They consider it the most fun they’ve had all day. Maybe all week.
I am less enthusiastic.
Categories: Daily Prompt, Humor
Squatting, nope, can’t do that any more. I used to like to squat to take photos but now unless there is something to pull myself back up on it’s not happenening.
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Garry still can. My knees say no, so I agree with my knees.
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That’s a difficult, almost impossible position to recover from. A hand would be necessary for sure.
Leslie
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Balance is really gone. I think with amusement about riding a bicycle. Sure, right. Plunk.
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Balance is compromised at this stage in the game.
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Y’think?
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chuckle ……yup…
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Younare Lucky, the dogs treat you as a friend when you are on the ground. You should try walking on all fours and they will share their Food with you.
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I’m sure they’d share their food with me. The question is, whether or not I really WANT that food. I suppose it depends on how hungry I get.
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Ouch
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Thinking of squat and dogs, when one of us gets back from a walk and says something like, “Idina didn’t do squat!”, it is obvious what we mean (she was a rescue and is the least housebroken dog we’ve had, so it is a good thing when she does squat when on a walk 😉 ).
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Trent, reminds me of my short-lived stint in the USMC. We’d return from a 5 mile double time hike — fully loaded down with gear. Gasping, one of the “boots” would say, “Sarge, we’re gassed. All done in”. The DI – with straight face and sharp voice would respond loudly, “You Ladies ain’t done SQUAT. Gimme another 5 miles — Double Time — Hut!”
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lol That does sound like the Marines… The closest I got was being in Nave ROTC for a couple of years – about a quarter of us were headed to the USMC, so they had a Marine drill Sargent and all, but we weren’t forced to work the way the “grunt” enlisted were.
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Trent, the Marine stint left me in the best shape of my life. Unfortunately, my bad hearing earned me an honorable/medical discharge. Still, I AM PROUD TO HAVE WORN THE UNIFORM.
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I am sure you are – I know that their saying of “The Few. The Proud. The Marines” was more than just advertising. I’m sure I wasn’t cut out for it and wouldn’t have made it past the first week!
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Garry was a wonderful and terrible marine. He laughed at the D.I.’s because they acted just like the actors in the movies and he was permanently on KP and cleaning bathrooms with a toothbrush. But if he hadn’t been deaf, they’d have put him up for an officer because he was smart and motivated — as he is with everything in his life. He’d have been a great military man, but then I’d have missed the best part of MY life. So better this way!
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My ROTC time was supposed to end in a commission as an officer, but after spending a summer on a sub (I went Navy because back then I wanted to be a nuclear engineer…) I discovered that the military life wasn’t for me. However, spending half of that summer in Connecticut, with a weekend drive to Maine, I also discovered that New England -was- the place for me.
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Trent, how was the sub duty?
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Not too bad, even for someone like me who is slightly claustrophobic – didn’t feel it at all. But I did get very restless – even back then I took a very long walk every day. And no, I did not want to do a long walk with a full pack at double time 😉 There was some parts that were cool (like war games where we “sunk” the other side’s carrier and they never found us) and it was interesting, but I did discover that it wasn’t the life for me.
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Better to know before the commitment.
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Yes, it is.
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My dogs both try to rescue me if I’m on the floor, so if I do yoga I have to shut them out of the room or I have 150 pounds of dog on top of me, looking worried.
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I’ve added squats to my informal daily workout. I squat when I pick up Bonnie. Our princess has put on a few pounds.
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