I think I'm getting old

TOMS1SS · 03-27-2011, 10:55 AM

So I'm at the car wash the other day running my second car through the express wash line. When the scanner reads the bar code on my car the machine spits out a receipt I'm supposed to give to the attendant. Since its a little too far of a reach with my left arm I release my seat belt and lean out the window to try to grab it with my right. It was at this point I felt it, I pulled my right oblique muscle.

I knew it was strain right away also, so I swallowed my pride and proceeded through the wash without the receipt.

Its been a couple days and the obique muslce is still a little sore but otherwise gradually healing like it should. If it was a complete muscle tear (I thought it might be at first) I wouldn't be able to move properly and there would be a lot of bruising. I've been lifting weights since I was 12 and been doing marthathon training for the past 10 years, so to have this happen at a car wash while reaching for a receipt is just damn embarassing.

Now I realize that this can happen to anyone but the picture I can't get out of my head is an old man falling down and breaking his hip.

heRS · 03-27-2011, 11:38 AM

sucks getting old, don't it.

TOMS1SS · 03-27-2011, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by heRS

sucks getting old, don't it.

Yes it does.

Ivas · 03-27-2011, 03:55 PM

Hell, you think you've got it bad? I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...

bigted83 · 03-27-2011, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Ivas

Hell, you think you've got it bad? I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...

KEEP RT · 03-27-2011, 08:04 PM

Car Wash?

Number 3 · 03-27-2011, 08:42 PM

Better to think you are getting old than to know it. LOL

RubyCamaro · 03-27-2011, 08:43 PM

Welcome to the old farts crew. Join us on our thread anytime. It helps if we stick together!

The Project · 03-27-2011, 09:02 PM

So much for aging gracefully

TOMS1SS · 03-27-2011, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by KEEP RT

Car Wash?

Yeah through the wash that my car will never EVER see no less.

TOMS1SS · 03-27-2011, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Ivas

Hell, you think you've got it bad? I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...

Probably doesn't bode well that I remember when that music video first came out.

heRS · 03-27-2011, 10:25 PM

Even worse... remembering before music video. uh... remembering before video.

TOMS1SS · 03-27-2011, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by heRS

Even worse... remembering before music video. uh... remembering before video.

My Atari 2600 remembers before music videos....

Ivas · 03-28-2011, 05:11 PM

Gosh, fellahs, I even remember before stereophonics, as it was called in 'dem days.

03-27-2011, 10:55 AM	#1
TOMS1SS Drives: NA Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: NA Posts: 12,126 View My Garage	I think I'm getting old So I'm at the car wash the other day running my second car through the express wash line. When the scanner reads the bar code on my car the machine spits out a receipt I'm supposed to give to the attendant. Since its a little too far of a reach with my left arm I release my seat belt and lean out the window to try to grab it with my right. It was at this point I felt it, I pulled my right oblique muscle. I knew it was strain right away also, so I swallowed my pride and proceeded through the wash without the receipt. Its been a couple days and the obique muslce is still a little sore but otherwise gradually healing like it should. If it was a complete muscle tear (I thought it might be at first) I wouldn't be able to move properly and there would be a lot of bruising. I've been lifting weights since I was 12 and been doing marthathon training for the past 10 years, so to have this happen at a car wash while reaching for a receipt is just damn embarassing. Now I realize that this can happen to anyone but the picture I can't get out of my head is an old man falling down and breaking his hip. __________________ El funcionario señor de los desiertos de Mojave y Sonora.

03-27-2011, 11:38 AM	#2
heRS Raised by Wolves Drives: IBM 2010 2LT RS M6 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 5,980 View My Garage	sucks getting old, don't it. __________________ Tori click the sig pic to view my build thread

03-27-2011, 08:04 PM	#6
KEEP RT Wonderfully Awful Idea Drives: 2010 2SS/RS Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Battle Ground, WA Posts: 1,456 View My Garage	Car Wash? __________________

03-27-2011, 08:42 PM	#7
Number 3 Hail to the King baby! Drives: '19 XT4 2.0T & '22 VW Atlas 2.0T Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 12,301 View My Garage	Better to think you are getting old than to know it. LOL __________________ "Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure." - Aldous Huxley

03-27-2011, 08:43 PM	#8
RubyCamaro Jan Drives: 2010 Camaro 1LT Red Jewel tintcoat Join Date: May 2010 Location: Springfield, TN Posts: 16,240 View My Garage	Welcome to the old farts crew. Join us on our thread anytime. It helps if we stick together! __________________

03-27-2011, 03:55 PM	#4
Ivas el Ruco Drives: 2010 Camaro SS (now runnin' TENS ) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fontana, CA Posts: 7,388	Hell, you think you've got it bad? I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so...

03-27-2011, 09:02 PM	#9
The Project Don't Mess with the Zohan Drives: 89 IROC Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: West of Toronto Posts: 160	So much for aging gracefully __________________ "Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."

03-27-2011, 10:25 PM	#12
heRS Raised by Wolves Drives: IBM 2010 2LT RS M6 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Spokane, WA Posts: 5,980 View My Garage	Even worse... remembering before music video. uh... remembering before video. __________________ Tori click the sig pic to view my build thread

03-28-2011, 05:11 PM	#14
Ivas el Ruco Drives: 2010 Camaro SS (now runnin' TENS ) Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Fontana, CA Posts: 7,388	Gosh, fellahs, I even remember before stereophonics, as it was called in 'dem days.