Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 18, 2024

That’s why some of you are nice enough and caring enough that you help us through doors and up/down steps. We appreciate some of you yung’ns.

Twenty years or so ago, at 65, I managed to fall three times in one year. Learned that walking and balance must be practiced. Ours nerves need to renew “connections”.

Practice makes Perfect … Be as active as you can … Use it or Loose It ;-)

That’s why I put rocks in my pockets

During my mail-carrying career, no matter how carefully I walked, I would fall an average of once a year. Since I retired 20 years ago, I’ve only fallen once, and that was while salting my sloping driveway when it was coated with a layer of smooth ice.

I have reached the point when I have to take the advice I give to those I transport in my business: Remember a cane, a walker/rollator, or a wheelchairs are just tools to get the job done. The job? Getting to where you’re going without falling!

AS I’ve gotten older, I have found I can’t walk slow in cowboy boots. Faster moving legs must create a gyroscopic action.

Random bouts of vertigo make life interesting.

Just try not to be downwind from a plugger.

Yes, I do.

Plugger walking on the San Andreas fault.

“Three sheets in the wind.”

If you fall repeatedly with no external causes, you need to have a check up. There are several things that loss of balance are a symptom for.

She’s no fun, she falls right over!

A broken back leave you unbalanced. . . . .

Be the wind.

Why does she remind me of a senior Sweet Polly Purebred?

And no sway.

There is almost never “no wind” in Wyoming!