Rockingham Remembered
Short Stories
The Importance of Exercise
Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85
years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home
at $5000 per month.


  My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she
was 60. Now she's 97 years old and we don't know where the
heck she is.


  The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could
hear heavy breathing again.


  I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks.
Haven't lost a pound. Apparently you have to go there.


  I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain
figures out what I'm doing.


  I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people
who annoy me.


  I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers
them.


  The advantage of exercising every day is that you die
healthier.


  If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a
small country.


  And last but not least: I don't exercise because it makes the
ice jump right out of my glass.