Why Are People So Lazy These Days? ( Archived) (17)

serene56: I mustn't be TOO lazy cos I did read your post all the way through

Basically people seem to be getting lazier as far as physical exertion is concerned - it seems to go from one extreme to the other, those who get amongst it and those who never do.

Many people I know pay someone to mow their lawns, do their housework and so on, when they are quite capable, and have the time, to do it themselves. Or they pay top dollar for "labour-saving devices" such as leafblowers rather than pick up a rake or a broom.

I'm getting older now, but as long as I can push that mower and dig that garden as well as hold down a fulltime job, I'll continue to do it myself.

It keeps me active and healthy and is very satisfying

Elmorya: Not True! Not True! I swear!

I do grow some stuff in summer: tomatoes, maize, squash, pumpkin, spinach, eggplant, watermelons, beans & fruit: orange, grape, peach & mullberry.

Winters are too harsh, lots of frost!

However last Judge at the Alimony Courts, found me guilty of sowing my seed all year round!

curly28: Why are people lazy today... cause they can the goverment gives them money to stay home. I have a hard time finding decent workers they hate my type of work especially the younger generation so frustraing people want to earn money but not work for it.

gsmonks: Last year I was given (yes, given) an acreage for looking after an old fellow while his nieces tried to find him a long-term case facility. The one niece came all the way out here from BC, the other came in from Melfort. The old fellow had another niece, who lived across the street from me, and about two blocks from his house, and complained she was "too busy" to help out. The old guy passed away on the day I was given the title to the old acreage he used to live on. How's that for coincidence?

Last Spring I began knocking the old farmhouse down that was on the acreage, taking my time in order to salvage anything that was salvageable, such as antique oil lamps, an icebox, a washboard, several windows, a hand-crank cream separator, several pieces of enamelware, and other odds and sods. The house itself came down board by board. Lots of the wood was rotten, but some of it was perfectly good.

This is farm country, and many of my neighbours are farmers. You'd think that, being farmers, they would be in pretty good shape.

Not so.

You've never seen so many guys with bad knees, bad backs, bad hips, swaybacked from having pot guts, that sort of thing. Bodies ruined by years of hard work? Nope. Bodies ruined by doing NO physical work, letting the machinery do all the work instead, and having their feeble bodies pounded to goo by riding around all day.

The generation before them are in much better shape. There are plenty of spry old guys in their 90's. They're trim, still in good shape, many of them still farming.

This sort of thing must skip generations, because the guys my dad's age (my dad himself was in great shape- he was a jock) are as lazy as the young guys these days. Don't know how to work up a sweat, won't lift a finger, couldn't run a block without suffering a heart-attack.

I don't understand how they can stand themselves like that. They treat physical work like it's a punishment to be avoided at all costs.

I happen to love it. Keeps me young.