One Foot In

I spent the winter working with a bunch of old men on either side of 80, pounding in election signs and pulling them up—hard manual work, especially in the cold. They’ve had heart scares and cancer. One once almost died from a stomach bleed—twice!

And yet they ran circles round me, the whinging 63½-year-old who in just the last week, lost a filling in my back tooth, burned my arm on the oven rack, and banged up my foot so badly it couldn’t have hurt more had I stubbed my poor pinky toe on my very own grave.

Inspired by Man Door Hand Hook Car Door. Image by the Meta AI.