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   TOM WALKER to ROGER NELSON   
   Motorcycles (was Value ta   
   23 Nov 11 05:27:00   
   
   RN>RN>As for me was very athletic when I was younger, but didn't keep it   
   RN>RN>up and it didn't matter because after one reaches age 40, one's body   
   RN>RN>begins to fall apart.   
      
   RN> TW> In my case the old body held up until I passed 60. I retired then   
   RN> TW> and took a temp job helping install medical monitoring equipment   
   RN> TW> working with two guys in their late 20's   
      
   RN>Wow!  I'm jealous!  (-:   
      
   RN> TW> They thought they would have some fun and run the old guy into the   
   RN> TW> grounde on one big job at a new hospital. Well I dazzled them by   
   RN> TW> not only keeping up with them but sometimes working Harder than   
   RN> TW> they did.   
      
   RN>When I went to work in a car dealership back in 1963, I was put in a stock   
   RN>receiving room where I "helped" a man much older than me who could outwork   
   RN>everybody in the building.   
      
   As the old saying Goes:  "Use it or Loose It"   
   As I went into the 70's I slowed down a bit. I worked with a fella 5   
   years older then I was at the local Railroad Museum for 10 years or so.   
   I worked as a tool runner and general flunkie and he was a Square   
   Dancer. He could run circles arroung me on anything like work.   
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