::: sign of aging :::

Yesterday Khien, SH, Maria and I went to the Curve for dinner, and then we headed to IKEA because Khien wanted to buy a closet to fit into his room. Everything went great and we had our fair share of fun around IKEA (no, we are not furniture fetish, except maybe SH, but we joked and talked).

All was well until when we were about to check-out the closet. See, in IKEA, the arrangement was that the assembled furniture you saw in the display area are not assembled, so you got to find out the aisle and roll number to pick up the boxes of goods. Well, Khien and I were taking out the boxes out from the bottom roll and it was pretty heavy. I mean, come to imagine it that it was a darn closet, so it must be heavy unless if its a paper closet or those plastic-zip-lock closet.

Anyway, because the stupid trolleys did not have any brake-lock (not like those found in U.S.) so we asked Maria and SH to hold the trolley still so we could load the thing up. We loaded up the first box (yup, it was a cool two box set-up closet) and when we were loading the second box, both Maria and SH were busy talking to each other in animated way and both of them were looking around (that's what I call eye-shopping). Neither of them were holding the trolley.

When I loaded the thing up, the trolley slipped and glided away. Because of the sheer weight of the darn box, and I was bending down at an awkward angle and I strained my back. It was painful alright, and I shouted (literally) at them to hold the trolley and they quickly did so. By the time we were done, I was having problem standing straight, and it was like burning on the lower back. Hell, it was so painful that when I was taking a dump in the toilet, I had problem getting up because it was too painful. Luckily I didn't have problem getting the shit out of the orifice, or else if pushing needed, I can imagine the pain involve (duh! Lower back muscle strain, not the orifice pain).

So today I have problem walking, carrying laptop and I am walking like an old man. Shit, that's the first sign of aging. I hope at least I will age gracefully.