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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 3097630" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>Old man strength is okay…but it's old man wisdom and experience that does the young punks in haha. Case in point, talked to an old guy a while back who had learned this lesson as a young guy <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. Back in his youth he had a job manually unloading train cars full of fertilizer bags, little 50 pound bags, by the thousands. On his first day he was 18 and a strapping young lad as they say, and right out of the gate was having no trouble taking two bags at a time, sometimes three haha. And this "old timer" as he called him working there was a smaller framed 60 year old man who just steadily carried one bag at a time and could sense the 18 year old's ego at play. They passed each other and the old guy said to him </p><p></p><p>"You might be tough kid but I'll still be doing this when you need a break". </p><p></p><p>And son of a gun! The old guy was right! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. The guy I was talking to, now an older man himself, says his 18 year old self couldn't believe his eyes when he realized at the end of the workday that this old buzzard had actually moved MORE FERTILIZER BAGS THAN HE DID!!!!! Slow and steady and just kept at it beat maximum effort and youth but needing breaks from overdoing it. That's wisdom, more important than the fleeting strength of youth <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 3097630, member: 109862"] Old man strength is okay…but it’s old man wisdom and experience that does the young punks in haha. Case in point, talked to an old guy a while back who had learned this lesson as a young guy 🤣. Back in his youth he had a job manually unloading train cars full of fertilizer bags, little 50 pound bags, by the thousands. On his first day he was 18 and a strapping young lad as they say, and right out of the gate was having no trouble taking two bags at a time, sometimes three haha. And this “old timer” as he called him working there was a smaller framed 60 year old man who just steadily carried one bag at a time and could sense the 18 year old’s ego at play. They passed each other and the old guy said to him “You might be tough kid but I’ll still be doing this when you need a break”. And son of a gun! The old guy was right! 🤣. The guy I was talking to, now an older man himself, says his 18 year old self couldn’t believe his eyes when he realized at the end of the workday that this old buzzard had actually moved MORE FERTILIZER BAGS THAN HE DID!!!!! Slow and steady and just kept at it beat maximum effort and youth but needing breaks from overdoing it. That’s wisdom, more important than the fleeting strength of youth 🤣 [/QUOTE]
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