Absurd retirement plan.

[Escoguy]

Reading Antifragile by Taleb, makes a case that manual labor makes us stronger etc. There is more to the book than that but your post made me think of this aspect.

I think anyone who does high repetition exercise: think spin/rowing has a better shot a longevity.

Also as far as absurd retirement plans, I drove 2,000 trips for Uber/Lyft a few years ago. Actually really enjoyed meeting all kinds of different people. I’m not working at the moment and was considering doing it again, wife was against due to Covid.

But might pick up sooner than later. No, it’s not about the money, it’s about being out and about etc. No real purpose to it in general but there are moments you can make into something i.e. conversations and things you see.

[scaredyclassic]

I can see that. Sounds potentially invigorating.

[svelte]

[quote=scaredyclassic]I prefer my car damaged.[/quote]

lol I keep most of my cars mint. Any damage fixed immediately.

About 5 years ago I had to leave at about 3 AM to go to the airport. While backing out of the garage groggy from lack of sleep I was just a wee bit close to our car on the left and its mirror (undamaged) left a crease in my truck’s front left fender. Very slight.

The more I looked at it, the more it looked like it should have been there all along! It actually looks good! Every so often I ask folks to find the one dent on the truck. Nobody has found it yet. They even question me when I point it out and tell them I put it there, I have to walk over to the other side to show them it isn’t on that side too.

It didn’t crack the paint so it is now a permanent new line on my pickup. 🙂

[scaredyclassic]

i just prefer mine messed up. i loved my old honda civic because it was dented and scraped on virtually every panel. my wife gets everything fixed right away on her car, and it just seems absurd to me. take the cash, live with the bumper!once you give in to the entropy, you dont have to worry about subsequent damage. i just dont see how it makes any difference whatsoever. plus I actually like the thrashed old car look. my 2012 accord actually looks relatively clean, a bit too clean for my taste, except for a hole in the bumper. maybe i drive better?

word of the day:

Beausage
Beauty by usage.
Beausage sounds French but it’s not; instead it’s a synthetic combination of the words beauty and usage, and describes the beauty that comes with using something.
Beausage is:

* Roman amphitheater steps whose faces are worn away by the tread of thousands and thousands of shoes
* Stone chips on the hood of a Ferrari 250 which has been run hard and put away wet
* A bike seat whose adapted form reflects that of its owner’s posterior
* The look and feel of the cockpit of the old Mercedes pictured above (a jumble of replacement gauges and parts, obviously used a lot) — that’s 91 years of beausage!
by Bausage Guy September 30, 2005

[Coronita]

I like having the best of both worlds. I like a clean looking car. Now I can totally cosmetically trash my track car, and at the end of a few years, repaint everything and trash it again.

I wont try to paint a 3 stage painted car though.

[scaredyclassic]

I may have a mental problem tho.

I hate using new things. Sometimes I let them sit a while in their newness.

I only feel comfortable using old things, even if items cheap.

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