Skipping

Lifetime purchases seldom seem so at the time. One of these, for me, is a skipping rope.

Little did I know, in 1975, that the Bobby Hinds Lifeline Jump Rope was a once in a lifetime purchase, that would follow me around like a dependent puppy.

When you get to be my age, there is a lot of cruft in the attic — things that may be significant… or not. The things that are over 50 years old tend to be brittle, but not this puppy. I’m smacking it a hundred and twenty times a minute on the gym floor — well, to be honest, that’s maybe an optimistic error in measurement — and annoying everybody in Activ Fitness Burgernziel.

To be honest, I didn’t follow the instruction book contiguously for fifty years — I mean, some people have a real life. However, I still have that instruction book. The yellowed pages reveal a regimen that some JTF 2 members might balk at. Because I’m such a fickle and non-serious participant, I can always say that I’m on the first few weeks of the schedule, and hence don’t need to do six minutes a day.

Of note, is that flipping the instruction book over to the other side, presents the French version, which is the mechanism (cereal boxes, road signs, advertising, …) that allowed me to learn French as a child.