[TheForge] test

[robert hensarling]

Along the same lines sort of:    You guys have seen the "Inversion"
exerciser being sold on TV, right?  Well, if y ou get one on those
contraptions, be careful if by  yourself!  Mine came with a 10 day free
trail, or else I wouldn't have ordered it.  The instructions say that it
only takes 20 minutes to put it together.  Anyway, several hours later, it
was together, and I wanted to join the inverted world for exercising.
I climbed on, and secured my feet into the proper places (Very, very
important!) and started playing around a little.  Before I knew it, the darn
thing let me go full inverted.  So much so in fact, the platform that my
back rests on was several inches behind my back, with the only source of
attachment being my footsies.  Wouldn't you know that I had to do this on a
day that Carrie was working.  I started to peep the word "help" but decided
better of it since the only ones that would hear me were the inside cats,
and I could just see them running in, sniffing around, marking my head, and
running out.
I finally had to bend and reach up to where my feet were, and unclick a
brace which let me twist my ankles 90 degrees, letting them lose from the
machine.  I almost had my 2nd foot out when I looked up (down?) at the
floor, and noticed that I was more than a foot above the rug.  Now, this may
not sound like a lot of distance, but to a guy with brittle bones from
advanced Osteoporosis, it was farther than I wanted to fall.
As it turned out, I  had to release that catch, and fall out of the machine.
I braced pretty good though, and didn't hurt anything cept my pride.
So, if you buy one of those gal-durned contraptions, be sure to read the
entire manual before you jump on and start swinging.  Better yet, let  your
wife go first!  If I had it all over to do again, Carrie would have been in
the drivers seat instead of me.  She's little and probably wouldn't have
gotten hurt at all.  She barely weights as much as a bag of cat food.
Am I going to keep it?  Jury is still out, but honestly I think it may be
helping me some, then again.................
(sorry, I get windy when I'm excited :o)





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GRAF" <adveniam at att.net>
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] test


> Two words no where near each other trips the switch.
>
> One is the stuff that doctors gives you beginning with "m" and ending
> wit "s"
>
> The other is what you do other than exercise when the scale reads to
> high. The word begins with "d" and ends with "t"
>
> This is like writing a cross word puzzle.
>
> Mike Graf
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