Monday, October 22, 2012

Getting Paid to Exercise

Right now, post surgery, I am absolutely dying to get back to Zumba and to walks with Thing 2. While I "feel" up to the walks, I'm well aware that I'm just one squirrel away from Thing 2 pulling all the incisions open, so for now I'm staying out of the exercise realm ---- for the most part.

Today, I was walking back into the office for lunch with a co-worker (I had gone home to let Thing 1 and Thing 2 out and have a sandwich and she had gone out for takeout). Anyway, we were chit-chatting while we walked in, and she was remarking about how hard a time she and her husband were having making ends meet. Since she was just talking, and not asking my opinion, I refrained from pointing out that bringing a lunch from home each day might be a better choice than $10ish takeout from Applebee's!

So, we're walking in and I notice a penny on the ground. I stop and pick it up and toss it in my purse. My co-worker asked what I was doing and I told her. She said something to the effect of "Girl, who has time to go around scrounging up pennies off the ground?" I came back with "Girl, I pay $4/hour class for Zumba, and right now I can't do it..... but reaching down to the ground... hey, I just got PAID to exercise!!!!"

We both laughed and walked back in to work, but it got me thinking a bit. I think it says something about our as a society if we are so fiscally and physically lazy that it is beneath us to bend over and pick money off the ground. Yeah, its just a penny, but it was also just bending over. Nothing lost in the endeavor, but a penny gained.

5 comments:

  1. I always pick up pennies and any money i find on the ground. You would be surprised at how much money I have found. But then If it is a lot I try to find the owner.

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  2. Have to laugh at that. I do pick pennies and dimes (I do love finding some dimes!). Though be sure you are bending the right way, so you don't hurt your back!

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  3. Ha! I ALWAYS pick up found money! Love the exercise reference! Hope you are feeling better soon!!

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  4. In Canada our pennies are about to disappear :( I bought the memorial silver coin for my daughter since she was born in its last year. lol.

    But I actually refuse to pick up anything that's not silver. I've definitely returned shopping carts across entire mall parking lots to collect the quarters, however. Inconsistent I know.

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  5. I'll pick up pennies all the time -- they do eventually add up. ;-)

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