Metropolitan Diary

[elleng]

Keep On Moving
Dear Diary:

I was doing my morning tai chi warm-ups in outside my home in Carroll Gardens when I noticed a flatbed truck loaded with building supplies parked nearby.

To my surprise, there was a man on the back of the truck vigorously doing push-ups and other calisthenics.

We caught each other’s eye, and when he finished his workout, he jumped down from the truck and approached me.

“Good for you,” he said. “You have to keep on moving all the time.”

“Good for you,” I said. “Now that I’m getting older, I try to do that.”

With that, he jumped up onto the back of the truck, climbed on the forklift that was mounted there and got to work.

— David Werber

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html

[kimbutgar]

1. My favorite line about exercise is you rest you rust!