Just need to vent...

I have accumulated more first-hand failure experience now than 40 years ago, and have a better idea what to watch for.

 

Luckily for me the 15 inch Prius wheels are not too heavy. My wife's Subaru wheels are a bit heavier. At 81 I can still handle the job and should for the next few years.

JeffD

 

I call those "Adult-proof" containers......

 

Worked with a lot of teak oil in shipyards many years ago - & have some teak furniture as well. As that stuff begins to thicken / coagulate inside those caps - it becomes impossible to remove, due to the cap's safety feature & the oil turning to a form of glue. But for its cost - it's almost worth throwing out.

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I worked with a man much older than me. He could take an apple in his hands and twist it into two perfect halves. Seemingly with little effort. I’ve tried and nothing happens.
Now I am getting even weaker. Sometimes I use diagonal wire cutters to snip at the caps.

 

Yes. Getting weaker is a PITA as well as less flexibility getting into and out of a car. I now choose to sit up as much as possible to make seeing driving easier. One thing that helps men is to link light exercise to daily activities. When you wash your hair do squats, when you brush your teeth stretch your hamstrings....and do 25 counter pushups before and after...then rinse.

 

I have three herniated disk so I can not longer handle the bigger wheels (like in my Tundra) but I can, still, manage those on our Prius. I just sit right down near the tire hub and roll the tire onto my lap and place it on...seems to work pretty good. I've, also, seen folks use shovels to lift them up for installation but you need quite a bit of room for that.

Concerning the spare tire issue, I added one to my AWD Prius and will do the same with my wife's Corolla AWD Hybrid comes in....it's been on order since the first week in May and, still, no build date, much less a transit date. My salesmen said, at this point, we'll probably just end up with a 2025 so hoping there's no big changes on colors or options or, most of all, that MSRP....we'll see.

 

one things for certain, when we die it's because something or multiple aspects of stuff wore out. Will it be my kidneys? the brain? the immune system? who knows. At one time there was nary a jar that was ever even given any consideration. Gone are the days - 15 reps at 225Lbs prior to heavy lifting or 100 mile bike rides or mile swims. Now - just mowing the lawn is a midnight recipe for leg cramps.

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Maybe he just smart.
splitting apple in half with hands - Search Videos

 

I thought that patients, especially the elderly, could ask for non-child-resistant bottles.

My dad's prescription bottles (before his prescriptions were moved to patient pill-paks) had reversible caps: child-resistant if put on one way, regular easy screw-on when flipped over.

 

I often use bad words when struggling against the "Packaging Police". You often cannot open a consumer package without a tool. Just this morning I opened a plastic tub of coffee and after struggling with the foil "safety seal" (it had a useless tab to open it), took out a sharp knife to defeat the seal.

JeffD

 

I remember those reversible lids fondly, but I haven't seen them in a while.

Fortunately I'm only on vitamins and supplements for now with maybe a Sudafed or an OTC pain/swelling pill for those >20,000 step days.
After wrestling them out of their adult-proof containers, I place them in a M,T,W... pill box.

 

Fitbit steps? I get 10 to 15,000 a day. Can't imagine 20K.

 

I guess I shouldn't tell you about our hiking days where the spouse's Fitbit exceeded 40k.

I obtained one only recently, and haven't used it much (need to get around to calling Customer Support about battery life and other problems), so don't yet have my own 35k-step badge, merely 30k. Probably would have had a great number if I had worn it on our long bicycle ride this week, where we biked my spouse's age (in miles) for her first time since the Pandemic. (The first digit of her age is a 7). Extrapolating from other rides, I'm guessing that my longest rides, the Seattle to Portland event in one day, could have been approaching 80k. Am seeing ultra-marthoners mentioning 120-150k in a day, and running is much higher impact than pedaling.

 

Most of my days are a more age-appropriate 10-15k.

I used to have a Fitbit but owing to my working on ladders a lot and because of my failings as a father and a husband - all of the ladies in my life including two inadequate sons-in law use dumb-people-phones.
SO.....I now use apple products - keeping my old Droids for IOT and other tech-geek things outside the walled garden.

25k days are mowing with a push mower.
A little more throttle intensive than just strolling but maybe not as much as jogging.
I like the cut better than just mowing down brush with one of my two riding mowers - one of which is down for maintenance, and other of which is only for suburban/cfo use.

 

Okay, Toyota, you done screwed the pooch with these new V35A 3.4-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engines....time to just do the right thing and BRING BACK the beloved V-8 engines!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/toyota-s-bulletproof-reputation-is-hurt-by-an-unfixable-defect/ar-BB1qQLDI?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=53412605f5ee49d6ab81b7a4ed86ba76&ei=55