The Indomitable Will

[rosco rathbone]

Am I mad? Magnificent? Or just hard. Delta Force, never-say-die, mountain-man hard.

It is almost half-a-mile to my supermarket. This day I travelled that distance on crutches, in snow & ice conditions, in the dark, stopping halfway to put about 30 lbs of laundry in the washer, shopped on the most crowded night of the week, and crippled back carrying this:

2 18oz jars pnut butter
4 pints cherry tomatoes
1 doz Eggs
10 apples
1 large kale
1 bag carrots
rosemary
parsly
dill
1 lg chard
6 onions
lemons
limes
6 potatoes
3 english cukes
1 celerey
32 oz (2 lbs!) of yogurt
2 packs of bacon
brown sugar box
scallions
3 red oinions

stopping halfway to put the wet clothes in the dryer.

I am intractable. Incapable of being subdued.

 

[Raidho]

You Ubermensch, you.

 

[paganangel]

Am I mad? Magnificent? Or just hard. Delta Force, never-say-die, mountain-man hard.

It is almost half-a-mile to my supermarket. This day I travelled that distance on crutches, in snow & ice conditions, in the dark, stopping halfway to put about 30 lbs of laundry in the washer, shopped on the most crowded night of the week, and crippled back carrying this:

2 18oz jars pnut butter
4 pints cherry tomatoes
1 doz Eggs
10 apples
1 large kale
1 bag carrots
rosemary
parsly
dill
1 lg chard
6 onions
lemons
limes
6 potatoes
3 english cukes
1 celerey
32 oz (2 lbs!) of yogurt
2 packs of bacon
brown sugar box
scallions
3 red oinions

stopping halfway to put the wet clothes in the dryer.

I am intractable. Incapable of being subdued.

with a shopping list like that you can't tout your manhood.

 

[rosco rathbone]

with a shopping list like that you can't tout your manhood.

I already had the meat at home.

 

[Sharon_]

Am I mad? Magnificent? Or just hard. Delta Force, never-say-die, mountain-man hard.

It is almost half-a-mile to my supermarket. This day I travelled that distance on crutches, in snow & ice conditions, in the dark, stopping halfway to put about 30 lbs of laundry in the washer, shopped on the most crowded night of the week, and crippled back carrying this:

2 18oz jars pnut butter
4 pints cherry tomatoes
1 doz Eggs
10 apples
1 large kale
1 bag carrots
rosemary
parsly
dill
1 lg chard
6 onions
lemons
limes
6 potatoes
3 english cukes
1 celerey
32 oz (2 lbs!) of yogurt
2 packs of bacon
brown sugar box
scallions
3 red oinions

stopping halfway to put the wet clothes in the dryer.

I am intractable. Incapable of being subdued.

Heh. I've walked a half mile on crutches...half of it down a muddy ridge, in the summer sun, carrying nothing....and I've carried 20# of groceries for a half mile on two good feet and all I can say is:

Yer a better man than I am.
[and you must have hella good tread on those crutch tips]

 

[Hester]

i am crazy moist over this.

 

[rosco rathbone]

[and you must have hella good tread on those crutch tips]

I am on my second pair.

 

[paganangel]

with a shopping list like that you can't tout your manhood.

rosemary?
dill?
english cukes?

i'll bet you had the meat at home.

 

[MechaBlade]

Am I mad? Magnificent? Or just hard. Delta Force, never-say-die, mountain-man hard.

It is almost half-a-mile to my supermarket. This day I travelled that distance on crutches, in snow & ice conditions, in the dark, stopping halfway to put about 30 lbs of laundry in the washer, shopped on the most crowded night of the week, and crippled back carrying this:

2 18oz jars pnut butter
4 pints cherry tomatoes
1 doz Eggs
10 apples
1 large kale
1 bag carrots
rosemary
parsly
dill
1 lg chard
6 onions
lemons
limes
6 potatoes
3 english cukes
1 celerey
32 oz (2 lbs!) of yogurt
2 packs of bacon
brown sugar box
scallions
3 red oinions

stopping halfway to put the wet clothes in the dryer.

I am intractable. Incapable of being subdued.

You need a buddy.

You culinary mensch, you.

 

[MechaBlade]

rosemary?
dill?
english cukes?

i'll bet you had the meat at home.

Oh snap.

 

[Batch]

You are strong.

ought I have added

of strong will? determined?

 

[rosco rathbone]

rosemary?
dill?
english cukes?

i'll bet you had the meat at home.

Lol, good one.

The cukes and dill are for my cucumber yogurt salad. Rosemary is plenty mascline though. I use it on roasted red potatoes with sea salt, and chopped akalamta olives.

 

[paganangel]

Lol, good one.

The cukes and dill are for my cucumber yogurt salad. Rosemary is plenty mascline though. I use it on roasted red potatoes with sea salt, and chopped akalamta olives.

why don't you just say it?
you were making faux jism dressing.
at least i hope it was faux.

 

[rosco rathbone]

why don't you just say it?
you were making faux jism dressing.
at least i hope it was faux.

DOn't worry folks we'll be here all week....

 

[Saint Peter]

One bigass jar of peanut butter would not have been enough?

 

[Sean]

I'm assuming some kind of backpack was involved?

 

[rosco rathbone]

I'm assuming some kind of backpack was involved?

It was a softpack and a cheap duffel bag. A real backpack would have been great.

 

[silver gurl]

One bigass jar of peanut butter would not have been enough?

I was thinking the same! Why 2 jars of peanut butter?

 

[Saint Peter]

I was thinking the same! Why 2 jars of peanut butter?

Choosy mothers...

 

[Sharon_]

I am on my second pair.

I was kind of envisioning nails poked thru kinda like ice boots

 

[stirbird]

It was a softpack and a cheap duffel bag. A real backpack would have been great.

Well... Christmas is coming up. Why not add it to your list to Santa?

I don't understand you, Rosco. (big news there, eh. ) You live in one of the few places in the world where everything can be delivered directly and cheaply to your doorstep, including groceries, and you do not take advantage of that fact. If you slipped and fell on the ice and reinjured or caused more harm to whatever causes you to use the crutches to begin with, you'd be really fucked. Months more of healing, PT, rehap; and maybe even less function returned. Months more of pain, furstration, and discoragement. Less ability to get work, less money/resources for medical care, less confidence that you'll get work once the rehab is all through. That's how the downward financial spiral usually starts in our country: with an accident or a bout of bad health.

At very least, why not call a cab? Why risk so much for so little?

 

[stirbird]

You are strong.

ought I have added

of strong will? determined?

The indomintable snowman. :/

Unfortunately, his is the type of strength that often gets one kilt.