[Magdalen] Keeping fit when old

[Joseph Cirou]

For various reasons, aside from renting from Enterprise I had  not owned a
car form June 2013 until June 2014.
I will walk to the garbage dump in our complex a little over a block, for
the same reason.Some people have offered to take the garbage in their car
or take the garbage for me. When I was still without a car I would accept
especially if I had more than one bag, but now I don't because the exercise
is good That is another advantage of working at the IRS. It's a good block
walk from the car to the building and back and there is a lot of indoor
walking  to get from our cubicles to the cafeteria etc. Now there are no
concessionaires for pasty inside our complex, but there are inside the IRS
building.

I thought of Zip Car but I'd have to go too far to get one. I would have to
take Marta to get to the closest Zipcar facility;
so I never signed up but thought of it often. where you live in Edgewater
it would be much simpler. CTA is far superior to MARTA ( I never thought
I'd way the CTA was superior to anything but life changes...

Joe

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Roland Orr <roland at orr55.org> wrote:
> > In England there are  dozen, or so, daily newspapers which can be
> collected
> > from the newsagent's or have delivered.
> > I am over 80 & walk over half a mile each day to collect my newpaper - I
> am
> > not alone in this  - I could use a bicycle when older
>
> I used to do this to keep motivated for walking. I like reading
> printed newspapers and would make myself walk 1/2 mile each way to a
> particular shop to buy a paper. Buying it anywhere closer, and buying
> a muffin or doughnut with the paper, were prohibited. :)
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>