At school long ago, I usually disdained the elevator and went up 7 flights of stairs two at a time. Coming down I used a quick rhythm like shallow rope jumping. If I tried that now … About all I can do now is admire young people doing what I once did, for the seeming sheer joy of it, like young springboks.
Some days just getting the feet off the floor one at a time can be a challenge. I didn’t know how bad I was until I tried to show my granddaughter how to skip. The whole family got a big laugh out of that!
Llewellenbruce: Nor will anyone else. The paranoids closed it as a “security” measure (marble stairs can be padded). It was a great trip, especially if one took time to look at the memorial blocks built into the interior wall, some of which have full relief sculpting.
pawpawbear over 11 years ago
Shut up, it’s a flight if say it is.
EarlP2 over 11 years ago
Oh to be that young again! There are days when I see it just as Earl does —
Llewellenbruce over 11 years ago
He’ll never climb the Washington Monument.
poppy1313 over 11 years ago
I used to laugh at Tim Conway on the Carrol Bernett show when he played an old man moving slow all hunched over…….. well now I are one!
juicebruce over 11 years ago
Well Earl that is what happens when you are a couch potatoe ! You have feet not roots, use the feet !
emptc12 over 11 years ago
At school long ago, I usually disdained the elevator and went up 7 flights of stairs two at a time. Coming down I used a quick rhythm like shallow rope jumping. If I tried that now … About all I can do now is admire young people doing what I once did, for the seeming sheer joy of it, like young springboks.
alondra over 11 years ago
I know how you feel Earl. Osteo-arthritis in the knees does that to you.
magicwalnut over 11 years ago
Oh, feel his pain!
EdFenster Premium Member over 11 years ago
Any number can lead to flight if you trip going down.
gmasj over 11 years ago
Some days just getting the feet off the floor one at a time can be a challenge. I didn’t know how bad I was until I tried to show my granddaughter how to skip. The whole family got a big laugh out of that!
Linguist over 11 years ago
A step, a flight, it’s all a matter of perspective. Sometimes, my get-up-and-go got up and went.
pastordave247 over 11 years ago
You mean there are other old men with my pain? And here I was thinking no one understood what it’s like.
Number Three over 11 years ago
Take as long as you need, Earl.
LOL xxx
Me3000 over 11 years ago
is there a movie on that flight?
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Llewellenbruce: Nor will anyone else. The paranoids closed it as a “security” measure (marble stairs can be padded). It was a great trip, especially if one took time to look at the memorial blocks built into the interior wall, some of which have full relief sculpting.
JP Steve Premium Member over 11 years ago
I’ve started referring to them as a fright of stairs!
Just one more thing over 11 years ago
Its a flight of stairs SIR