Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout, Willis?

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.
–A.H. Weiler

I saw this quote today and thought it was so apropos of so much. In our little business, it’s nothing for clients to demand fast turnaround times, then wait and wait on their end. It’s the nature of the beast.

And the idea of nothing is impossible is how I got my second hernia when I was 13 years old.

My dad made me lift the front of a small tractor we had to get on a trailer. He started haranguing me with, “When I was your age I could lift a 300 pound wheel of cheese with one arm.” The sick part is that he probably could have. We’re part Cro-Magnon. Or at least Irish.

My dad didn’t think that it was impossible to lift the front of the tractor because he didn’t have to do it. I got a Grade AA Extra Large Egg-full of intestine in my groin. That was nice. So whenever I hear the words “Nothing is impossible” all I can think is, “Turn your head and cough.”

Posted on January 7, 2008
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Comments

  • Thank god I am just a frilly little thing!! LOL about the 300lb wheel of cheese!
  • Sarcasmom...I was raised by a bit of a chauvinist...a Chicago Cop. So...only the boys could lift things. And my dad never understood that I couldn't lift things like a grown man. I have the surgery scar to prove the injury. ;-0

    Howard, that's the kind of boss that makes us not want to work again...especially when we're young. Ugh. But it builds character is what my dad said. If that's so, I'm Socrates.
  • One of my girls swears that my husband made her bear the weight of an upright freezer as they moved it up from the basement when she was about 13. I think that the story has become a bit exaggerated over time.Their father never treated them differently because they were female. But sometime he forgot they were kids.
  • "Nothing is impossible" sounds like one of the mottos of a UPS superviser I had back when I first got a part-time job there in college ;)
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