The Importance of Walking

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Walking can add minutes to your life.
   This enables you at 85 years old
   to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing
8 P3 _9 ?; h% U8 K7 d* J   home at $7000 per month.
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    My grandpa started walking
" q* O3 G, V5 M! x1 n    five miles a day when he was 60.
    Now he's 97 years old
    and we don't know where the hell he is.
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0 ?0 ?# I! e" U& e4 ?" `0 H0 v2 Y   I like long walks,
, r; O( h, D- y; @& Q    especially when they are taken
# {; B7 e% c& j$ i% V    by people who annoy me.
  
- ^9 T5 W1 H8 g4 V( L7 i8 G3 b4 [# B! q   The only reason I would take up walking
    is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
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    I have to walk early in the morning,
3 C6 L8 j# u2 M+ Q$ b& ]    before my brain figures out what I'm doing..
   
# u0 a1 u3 g: [$ W0 @0 w   I joined a health club last year,
    spent about 400 bucks.
+ }; ^9 _4 a# G* N    Haven't lost a pound.
4 u, S* i( a9 u. {# Y- f! a# }    Apparently you have to go there.
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   Every time I hear the dirty word 'exercise',
* f5 [! l$ d5 l# @0 i+ t) C" Z. T    I wash my mouth out with chocolate..
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   I do have flabby thighs,
! c2 g) z. |5 T0 D    but fortunately my stomach covers them.

: ~6 J7 e# W7 k1 \/ v& c. m& G    The advantage of exercising every day
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0 Y# c5 b- o3 i6 i    'Well, she looks good doesn't she.'
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  L. P% }' B7 D% j, _5 E8 u7 W   If you are going to try cross-country skiing,
" u# W! N0 J& X+ M% e. ~  start with a small country.
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1 R: R" J5 ^' X" ^9 p3 }/ a$ Q   I know I got a lot of exercise
    the last few years,......
/ T/ w  k) |) ^5 p    just getting over the hill.

3 |- B% v4 f$ f$ M  }/ [  We all get heavier as we get older,
4 u) b  }2 {4 Q- ^5 l# i    because there's a lot more information in our heads.
    That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
   
   AND

% E2 Q- ~' ]2 E9 B( s: N# n    Every time I start thinking too much
     about how I look,
    I just find a Happy Hour
5 g4 H' y* O: A: j( b- M   and by the time I leave,
  n$ _  Q" u: \6 z, ?* g" ?. i    I look just fine.