No Excuses for You; Give Us Your Best Reasons for Not Walking. We Can Shoot Them Down

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: John Briley | Copyright information

People come up with some incredibly creative excuses for not walking: "My feet are in the shop." "I don't want to destroy the delicate first layer of topsoil." "I can't find all my toes." "No thanks, I walked in my sleep last night."

Okay, we admit we don't have good comebacks for any of those. But for the rest of the excuses -- the more common ones you're probably using and that keep you in the high-risk category for just about everything you don't want to happen to you -- we offer th...

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