Out side job's

Never a truer word said especially as we get older the job gets harder to do. I used to be able to throw myself about around cars and think nothing about it, but now that idea is very dangerous. By example, when COVID first took effect and the government put the country on lockdown, my boss put us on fairlough and after a good couple of weeks or so he called me back in. During the first week of return I mot tested a car and during the pedal box assessment I must have unknowingly twisted my back. From the morning onwards I felt my back getting worse in pain until the time came to go home and I was left to close the garage up and what a struggle. We have a alloy sign we put out and use two 20 litre used oil tubs to ensure the sign does not blow away into the roads during windy days. The sign was even felt difficult to lift when bringing it back into the garage and the oil tubs, well I could not do anything with them except try and kick them across the four-court to get them back into the garage, and what a task that was. Iwas then thinking that after a good nights rest I'll be okay, however, the following morning I could not move. I crawled out of bed on my hands and knees to the bathroom and the pain was seriously hurting 99% of the time. I rang in work explaining my back had given up and I was in serious pain, hence from Saturday to the following Thursday I was in constant pain and then the pain started to ease and by Monday the following week I was okay and back into work.

Mobile and ground floor car repairs are no good to us old timers that's for sure. 

I'm 51 and my back hurts and is bad enough as it is without extra work 

These days just looking at a lotus Elise hurts my back  and I'm NOT looking forward to lumping the Renault kadjar box out Tuesday either