Posted on 12/12/2007 11:24:24 AM PST by blam
My wife’s feet grew when she got pregnant. Sort of like a Hobbit.
Man, oh, man...talk about at target rich environment!
So maybe it’s the difference in the spine that accounts for fewer back injuries in women. I always figured that it was the division of labor. The man and his buddy carry the flipping gigantic couch that she insisted on up the steps while she says “Don’t hit the door” as her husband groans and feels the couch slipping from his grasp . . .
LOL!
Nope,
I’m dubbed “Gorilla Back” because I’m the one who did all the heavy lifting (OK, make that ‘still does’). Seems late hubby had a bad back, GBB (Grumpy Bachelor Brother) has a bad back....the other two brothers live too far away.
I’ve lifted everything from 3 tons of flooring in 30# increments, a fireplace insert, drug a club chair up the stairs, same with the 30” TV, a chiase lounge upstairs...then two years later downstairs.
And all my feed sacks are 50#. Can I do it? Yes
Am I happy about it? No. But I’ve never been injured or even pulled something...but sore? YES!
So I think maybe women do have different backs to deal with pregnancy and the body changes....maybe the muscles stretch but stay strong.
My grandfather had a hernia. He’d say things like “She can’t talk now. She moving boulders” or “Can you pick up that tree stump dear?”
And I thought my wife was built!
ping
Did you really have to do that?
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Just supporting the argument. You can see he’s falling down. ;~))
Big feet.
Surely someone must have asked already how it is that a man with an even huger (and series) beer gut doesn’t tip over. (The guy using the wheelbarrow doesn’t count.)
LOL!
Like I said,
The only time GBB comes over is so he will be available to call 911.
Women do not tip over during pregnancy because their spines are built differently from men’s – and have been ever since our ancestors began walking upright. The difference allows a pregnant woman to lean backward to counterbalance the weight of her developing fetus.
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My ancestors never crawled ( except as babies) or walked hunched over (except the very elderly grandmother). Does anyone really believe this?
Don't worry, Greg ... you're not the only one thinking raunchy thoughts about that line ...
;'}
Heh, well, Najida had the grace not to respond. Ladies. Can’t live with them, can’t get the flooring moved into the house without them.
Then there is the fact, as I used to point out to my dear ex when she was in PMS mode, that if she was back in Poland she would be pulling the plow, her Grandfather , a wonderful man, would crack up, Misha, Misha, you don't know how good you have it.
Her Grandmother, spawn of the devil, would mutter something like, How could name someone Mouse, Misha.
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