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Old 01-25-15, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Heathpack
Hey @3alarmer, was talking to a firefighter on the cruise. He said they had to run up and down 10 flights of stairs in something like 90 seconds. Then do a bunch of other stuff- sit ups, push ups, run, swim some kind of manly distance while wearing boots. Did you have to do that stuff?
They hadn't invented stairs back then. Boots either.

Originally Posted by 3alarmer
This is what it's like, being retired and on a fixed income, with nowhere to turn for solace and succor in an uncaring modern world.
Doesn't TH and P&R provide the solace and succor?

If not, I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you!
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