{"id":88596,"date":"2022-02-02T05:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=88596"},"modified":"2022-02-02T05:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:36:41","slug":"the-old-coot-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2022\/02\/02\/the-old-coot-is-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Coot is \u2018okay\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A kid racing around like a wild maniac falls on his face and the parent (at least in my day) immediately says, \u201cYou\u2019re okay!\u201d Usually the kid pops up and goes off running. Thinking he is okay, and learns to accept a level of pain or discomfort and moves on. Football, soccer, baseball, hockey, basketball, and other coaches use that same technique.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalk it off and then hop over to the bench and we\u2019ll tape you up.\u201d (And, push the bone that is sticking out back into place.)<\/p>\n<p>It works with kids. I still see a lot of moms and dads using the \u201cyou\u2019re okay\u201d technique. It doesn\u2019t work with old coots. When we stumble, we\u2019re not okay! Yet, we still engage our inner-child when someone rushes over to ask, \u201cAre you okay?\u201d Whether we\u2019re okay or not, our embarrassment overpowers reality and we respond, \u201cI\u2019m okay.\u201d We have not accepted our aged infirmity and state of fragility.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I fell flat on my face while walking on the beach last year. I claim I just stumbled, that my foot caught in the sand, and in spite of using a walking stick to avert a fall I went down so fast I didn\u2019t get a chance to use it. A nice young couple rushed over to see if I was okay and to offer to help me back up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fine, thanks,\u201d I said, and mumbled, \u201cI just need to sit here for a minute.\u201d When they were out of sight I started the process of getting up from a bed of soft sand. It was a perfect imitation of a newborn colt standing for the first time. It\u2019s an engineering marvel to raise an old coot from a horizontal to a vertical position. Something we coots don\u2019t want anyone to see, if we can help it. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I got back home I told my wife I had a close call, which by then I\u2019d increased its severity to a nearly fatal fall on the beach. Her response, after hearing yet another of these incidents, was simply, \u201cYou\u2019re okay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comments can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:mlessler7@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mlessler7@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A kid racing around like a wild maniac falls on his face and the parent (at least in my day) immediately says, \u201cYou\u2019re okay!\u201d Usually&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Old Coot is \u2018okay\u2019 - Owego Pennysaver Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2022\/02\/02\/the-old-coot-is-okay\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Old Coot is \u2018okay\u2019 - 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