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Topic: Don't count out us old farts!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted January 08, 2019 11:15 AM
OK, some back story for you ...
I was at the library, and I was talking to an old fellow about how I just turned 53, as it was my birthday yesterday, (January 7th), there were three young teeenage couples at this coffee shop (in the upper part of our library), and I overheard one of them say, "Fu**in Old Man", to which the girlfriends giggled.
I took off my coat and promptly got down and did 60 push-ups, non-stop. Two of the young men, without saying a word, got up and dragged they're girlfriends out, the other couple stayed quiet as a mouse, I just went down to the "internet cafe" part of the library to do my business. I told a friend about this and he said, "C'mon Osi, did you REALLY do 60 push-ups?"
So, when I got home, I set up our FLIP digital camera and filmed myself, not doing 60 but 70 push-ups, and though I could have done more, I decided to stop. When i reviewed the video, it turned out that I had done 70 push-ups in 57 seconds! (from 24 seconds to 1 minute 21 seconds!). I had no idea that I had done so many in such a short time!
Therefore, enjoy an old fart doing what most 20, 30 or even 40 years can't do, and I'm 53!!!!
If people ask me as to how I'm able to do something like this at 53, I'll answer them ...
"Have you ever tried to lug an ELMO GS1200 around?"
Bet you wondered how I'd relate this to film, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi9WxwsJPCU&feature=youtu.be
Happy Birthday to me!!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted January 08, 2019 11:50 PM
60 push ups ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) I do 6 every morning and that's enough ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Osi I would tend to have a more direct approach to such comments. I would pull up a chair opposite, but at the same table as them. Face them of, and at the same time dipping my finger into there drinks, then say....is that yours ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
If they want to think of you as an old fart why not make them think you are a crazy old fart
I guess that's my Scottish background coming out.
An amusing true story my father once told me, that in Glasgow where he worked, an elderly gentleman was try to park his car in the city, he was about to reverse into a space when some young guy in a we mini took it. The young guy got out of his car, went up to the elderly gentleman and said...you have to be young and fit to do that dad.....the old chap said nothing but continued to reverse his big old car into the mini pushing it onto the pavement.
The old chap got out, and went up to the young guy and said....you have to be old and rich to do that son....
Anyway happy birthday, mine was the 2nd of January....now hitting the 67 mark
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