The hoist and the pretty young assistant suggestion sound good. I can manage the hoist, but pretty young assistants are scarce. Gerry
Randy Bennell wrote: > Good for you Gerry. I am not so old as you but I am having a harder > time motivating myself to do things than I used to. > It sounds to me like you need a garage with a hoist so that you can walk > around under the car and not have to get up and down to crawl under it. > Either that, or you need a pretty young assistant who can fetch wrenches > etc. > > > >> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 02:59:47 +0000 Rick Knoble via Mercedes > >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Gerry says: > >>> > >>>> The statisticians said I should have gone to my reward 12 years ago. > >>> Well, if a broken hip, and laying on the shop floor for three days > >>> didn't lead you to your demise, I'd say the statisticians would call > >>> you an "outlier". > >> I seem to have missed something! > >> > >> Gerry, when did that happen? What happened? > > G: I fell behind the shop and broke a hip; crawled around and into the > > front of the shop, and then passed out or something a few feet from the > > phone. SIL and daughter found me 24 hours later. That was five to seven > > years ago. A couple of years ago I fell in a restaurant rest room and > > cracked the pelvis. Had very good rehab, and now the pelvis is good as new. > > Since getting up and down and working under the Mercedes is getting pretty > > difficult, I may have to get somebody to replace the rubber bits and center > > driveline bearing on the '83 240D, but still hope to do it myself > > eventually. > > > >> How old are you now? > > G: 90 > >> > >> Craig > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
