하루에 만보 걷기: 걷는 이야기를 하지만 걷지 않는 이유?

 

XXL 사이즈의 남자 두 명이 수다를 떤다. (음 좀 심심한가? 유머 하나 투척~)

남자1 : 건강을 유지하려면 날마다 만(10,000)보를 걸어야 한다는데, 인도인이 세계에서 가장 적게 걷는 게으른 민족이라는 기사 봤어?

남자2 : 물 한 통 길어오려고 날마다 몇 마일씩 걸어야 하는 마을 여자들은 어때?

남자1 : 마을 사람들은, 특히 여성이라고 하면 개의치 않지. 그 기사는 충분히 걷지 않아서 비만과 당뇨, 심장 질환을 일으키는 우리 같은 도시 남자에 해당되는 거지.

남자2 : 농담하지 마. 그래서 걷기 시작하는 거야?

남자1 : 그래, 의사가 하라고 해서.

남자2 : 와우, 그래서 걷는 게 비만과 당뇨, 심장 질환을 예방한다고?

남자1 : 모르지 뭐. 걷기 시작한 첫날 길에서 똥 밟아서 그만뒀어.

남자2 : 윽, 소똥이야 개똥이야?

남자1 : 난 운이 좋았어. 사람 꺼야. 설사.

남자2 : 으윽, 그래서 어떻게 됐어?

남자1 : 다음날은 맨홀에 빠졌어.

남자2 : 이런, 맨홀이 깊었어?

남자1 : 모르지. 다행히 배가 맨홀보다 커서 중간에 걸렸어. 그래서 사람들이 코르크 병마개 빼는 것처럼 날 뽑아주더라고. 뽁!

남자2 : 참 아슬아슬하게도 산다. 그 다음은?

남자1 : 그 담엔 12살짜리가 과속으로 모는 BMW에 치일 뻔했지.

남자2 : 어어, 보도블록 위로 다녀야지.

남자1 : 보도블록 위에 있었다니깐. 근데 BMW도 그랬어.

남자2 : 근데 왜 공원이 아니라 길에서 걸었어?

남자1 : 어쩌다가 이런 일이 일어난 거 같아? 걸어서 산책할 공원까지 2분이면 가는데 그 와중에... (링크 참고)

‘Out of step: Why we Indians talk the talk, talk the walk, but don’t walk the walk‘

Two Size XXL city gents having a chat.

1st gent: Did you read that report in the TOI that in order to keep fit we should walk 10,000 steps every day, and that Indians are the world’s laziest people who walk the least?

2nd gent: How about all those village women who have to walk miles and miles every day just to get a pail of water?

1st gent: Villagers don’t count, particularly if they’re women. The report was about city guys like us who don’t walk enough, which makes us obese, and gives us diabetes and cardiac problems.

2nd gent: No kidding. So are you going to take up walking?

1st gent: I did, on doctor’s orders.

2nd gent: Wow. And has walking stopped you from being obese and getting diabetes and cardiac problems?

1st gent: Dunno. The first day I started walking I had to stop when I stepped in some poo on the road.

2nd gent: Yuck. Cow poo or dog poo?

1st gent: I should be so lucky. Human poo. Runny human poo.

2nd gent: Double yuck. What happened after that?

1st gent: The next day I fell into an open manhole.

2nd gent: Golly. Was it a deep manhole?

1st gent: Dunno. Fortunately I didn’t fall all the way in as my tummy is bigger than the manhole and I got stuck halfway. They had to pull me out like a cork from a bottle. Pop!

2nd gent: You sure know how to live dangerously. What next?

1st gent: Next I was nearly run over by a speeding BMW driven by a 12-year-old.

2nd gent: Uh, oh. You should always walk on the pavement.

1st gent: I was on the pavement. But so was the BMW.

2nd gent: But why did you do your walking on the roads and not in the park?

1st gent: Where do you think all this happened? On the two-minute walk to the park where I was to do my walk …

DISCLAIMER : This article is intended to bring a smile to your face. Any connection to events and characters in real life is coincidental.