Into the black

It's appropriate that the first time I filled out a form with "Age: 30," I was at the doctor's office. I'm not going to go into detail why I was at the doctor's, except to say it involved a shoe being thrown at a wall at high speed and a slightly torn muscle in my right arm. You can probably piece together the rest on your own. If you can't, use your imagination, and the story you come up with almost surely will be more interesting than what actually happened.

So anyway, back in the doctor's office, the guy told me that I'm perfectly healthy, but my body just can't do the things it could when I was in college. He told me I need to ease into strenuous activities, not jump right in. For example, throwing shoes against walls as hard as one can, without properly warming up by gently throwing shoes against walls, can lead to arm injuries.

Essentially, what the good doctor was saying was, "You're getting old. This shit is going to happen more and more, until finally, it will happen once too often or once too hard, and you'll die. Now if you'll take these forms up front, Melissa will fax this in to your insurance provider."

• Posted by Brian at 10:37 PM
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