Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 11, 2024

If your belly gets in the way when you try to reach the floor, you’re a plugger.

For the last time, bend with your knees not your back.

In my younger days whenever I would drop something, without even thinking about it I would swoop down and pick it up. Nowadays I will just look at the dropped item, wondering if I ever really need it.

No bending for me, I keep grippers in every room.

It’s not every time. And sometimes it’s not the bending down so much as it is the straightening back up (or just getting up).

Somewhere along the line, my arms and fingers got shorter. That’s my excuse.

Doggie is forget to walks on all four limbs. Otherwise doggie coulda easily picks it up.

Geez! All this time I’ve been considering myself a Plugger but at 81 and 195 lbs, I can swoop down and pick up anything I drop. I’ll have to stop reading this strip. Not.

Another “Not Yet” Thank – You ;-)

Yup! And the corollary to this is “if you grunt getting up from your easy chair”…

I stoop or squat to pick things off the floor. Bending over is tough for my arthritic back. But I still utter an ugh or whatever getting back up.

Lifting things like my bum from a chair?

WHERE is the hidden camera they have in my HOUSE??!!

I yelp in pain every time.

If you drop something, and then spend time wondering if you need it badly enough to bend down to pick it up, you’re a Plugger!

Before leaning down to pick something up I always make sure there’s a support nearby that I can use to help get back up.

Maybe you’re obese.

My doctor warned me I should only pick up things with someone else’s back.

That’s OK. It’s when you groan in pain you’re in trouble.