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100-year-old car salesman still working six days a week
UPI ^ | 3/23/2015 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 03/23/2015 5:54:33 PM PDT by Signalman

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To: Jonty30

and so?


21 posted on 03/23/2015 6:22:54 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Jonty30

That must be the story that I was trying to tell from memory.


22 posted on 03/23/2015 6:23:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: rockinqsranch

My ex-wife’s grandfather was still stacking hay bales on a wagon at 94. Smoked a pack of Chesterfield Kings every day from when he was 12.

He got caught the next year by a bale coming from the baler, and it knocked him off the wagon and broke his hip. He was gone in less then 18 months.

God bless this man, and may he work for as long as the spirit moves him.


23 posted on 03/23/2015 6:26:05 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Larry Lucido; Jonty30

Boy my memory was terrible, but all I knew about the story was just a short newspaper article from many years ago, with her name from jonty30, I went to wikipedia, and it turns out that she died at 122, and is the longest living person with verified age.

“Both before and after Calment’s death, there have been several claims to have surpassed her age (see Incomplete longevity claims) but none of them has been proven and Calment therefore continues to hold the record for the oldest verified person ever.”

“In 1965, at age 90 and with no heirs, Calment signed a deal to sell her apartment to lawyer André-François Raffray, on a contingency contract. Raffray, then aged 47 years, agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died. Raffray ended up paying Calment the equivalent of more than $180,000, which was more than double the apartment’s value. After Raffray’s death from cancer at the age of 77, in 1995, his widow continued the payments until Calment’s death.[2] During all these years, Calment used to say to them that she “competed with Methuselah”.”


24 posted on 03/23/2015 6:30:00 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Several relatives of mine have succumbed to ‘broken hips.’ I think it wasn’t so much the broken bones that killed them but the sedentary existence which constituted recovery. This resulted in serious muscle mass loss from which it is hard to recover at advanced ages.


25 posted on 03/23/2015 6:39:51 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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To: Signalman
If his odometer hadn't been rolled back he'd be 160.
26 posted on 03/23/2015 6:41:27 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: fungoking

Well played!


27 posted on 03/23/2015 6:43:08 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: ansel12

:)


28 posted on 03/23/2015 6:58:11 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: posterchild

Agreed...it was the lack of activity due to the injury. It wasn’t the injury itself. It healed slowly but he never recovered from the slowdown and he just kept slowing down.

Had he not broken his hip, and merely taken a tumble as he had in other activities before, he would have kept going for another 5 years.


29 posted on 03/23/2015 7:11:04 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Signalman

Coffee is for CLOSERS!


30 posted on 03/23/2015 7:17:39 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Signalman

I retired at 60. I don’t miss work one bit.


31 posted on 03/23/2015 9:11:21 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: rockinqsranch

In 1987 I fenced our 40 acres, RR ties every 32 feet. I took our PU box trailer up to the quarry, and had the old man load it with 3/4 minus many times. We got to talking, and he was in his 90’s. He said in his youth, he use to cut cord wood, and sell it to the steamboats on the Willamette River, near the confluence of the Santiam River.


32 posted on 03/23/2015 9:20:55 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: AlaskaErik

I retired at 60 myself.
Bought a 20 acre farm in my mid 30’s for a vacation place for the wife and kids.
Never got to go there to much while I was working.
Now I live here and find myself working 7 day weeks and about 12 to 14 hours a day on average.
LOVE IT.


33 posted on 03/23/2015 9:32:21 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Signalman

I worry more about the man downstairs.


34 posted on 03/23/2015 10:41:34 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (Let's Go Eat Dhedo)
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To: Larry Lucido

I like pie.


35 posted on 03/24/2015 2:15:51 AM PDT by expatguy (Donate to "An American Expat in SE Asia")
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To: posterchild

The science is much better these days I’m 68 and just had the second hip done. The issues are overall physical condition including bone density active rehab and avoiding infection and pneumonia

Much better outcomes than even ten years ago


36 posted on 03/24/2015 2:52:01 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: rockinqsranch

NOT quite as old, but the guy we buy our firewood from is 87, and still chopping, stacking, loading tons of firewood six days a week. Sunday he rests.

He’s quite a guy. Hope to be in his condition with his attitude in a few years when I’m that age.

...

It’s good to work jobs that aren’t easily outsourced.


37 posted on 03/24/2015 6:03:57 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Signalman

Hey, what else is there to do in Casper besides work?

;^)

Just kiddin’, Casperites!


38 posted on 03/24/2015 1:52:33 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
The science is much better these days I’m 68 and just had the second hip done.

Situations like yours remind me that God's been WAY better to me than I deserve. At 71 everything still works, outside of an occasionally cranky knee that I'll get looked at some day. I survived a heart attack in 2011 and will be on the rec b'ball court tonight chasing after those 40-50 year old kids!

39 posted on 03/24/2015 2:04:52 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

The science has improved, though I had in mind several people - the youngest of which was 89. You’re a spring chicken compared to them.


40 posted on 03/24/2015 6:50:26 PM PDT by posterchild (It takes a politician to declare a settled science.)
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