How To Strengthen Your Flabby Dare Devil Muscles

Every hometown newspaper in the universe has featured a story about an adventurous retiree fulfilling a lifelong dream of skydiving.

I see that beaming face lunge from 14,000 feet and shudder. I could NEVER do that. Or could I? Could the straightest path to a mature adrenaline rush be a matter of…practice?

Skydivers jumping from airplane

Courtesy depositphotos/sibsky…edits by Shallow Reflections™

It is common knowledge that young people take risks and feel invincible. But what about those safety conscious AARP members? What kinds of high risk behavior can they practice to strengthen flabby dare devil muscles?

Here are a few ideas:

  • Sitting on a toilet seat in a public restroom without checking it first
  • Leaving home without your GPS
  • Negotiating the bathroom in the middle of the night without your glasses
  • Taking a nap without your CPAP
  • Playing miniature golf; those windmills can be deadly to the uninitiated. I once had a serious rug burn when I fell on a putting green.
  • Doing a crossword puzzle with an ink pen
  • Mistaking the local medical marijuana dispensary for a Walgreen’s
  • Mistaking the local Walgreen’s for a medical marijuana dispensary
  • Answering a landline phone. My sister broker her ankle doing this.
  • Going to church on Sunday morning without a respirator…..the day after a bean supper
  • Going to bed without flossing
  • Drinking a caffeinated beverage after 10 a.m.
  • Setting up a Twitter account….and tweeting
  • Going to a dance where no one knows CPR
  • Filling your weekly pillbox….correctly
  • Having more than one medical specialist
  • Sending a Facebook friend request to your daughter/son/grandchild
  • Answering the phone when caller ID says ‘unavailable’
  • Wearing horizontal stripes
  • Joy riding across a Walmart parking lot…..without wearing your seatbelt

And the mother of them all…are you ready for this?

  • Taking a bath or shower. Considering all the millions of injuries that occur every year in this hygienic death trap, we should all wear a medal each day that says, “I survived the shower.” I’m thinking of installing a digital safety scoreboard in my shower, so I can keep track of my injury free showers days. I feel more courageous just thinking about it!

By practicing these and many more, I have no doubt there will be a free fall in YOUR future. I hope you post it on YouTube so I can experience the thrill of it too.

What kind of risks do you take to keep a sense of danger and excitement in your life? Have you ever gone skydiving? Would you like to? Are you itching to try some of my ideas?

Molly Stevens

About Molly Stevens

Molly Stevens arrived late to the writing desk but is forever grateful her second act took this direction instead of adult tricycle racing or hoarding cats. She was raised on a potato farm in northern Maine, where she wore a snowsuit over both her Halloween costume and her Easter dress.