The REAL Reasons We Lift

[The Battle Chef]

NERDS!

I want to hear stories of how lifting, or just generally getting stronger has helped you out.  Not in any meaningful ways (like managing a disease or competing in a sport), but in little, hidden ways that you never expected to see.

I shall share with you the moment that led me to posting this.

I work at a hotel.  Like many hotels and hospitality focused businesses, the staff facilities are furnished with secondhand items that are serviceable, but no longer appropriate for guest use.  The staff bathroom had a particular toilet paper dispenser that only half worked.  It houses two rolls at a time, butt the little plastic gate thingee that releases the second roll never worked.  This is normally not an issue, as the few housekeepers that have not been working at the hotel since the fall of Rome usually open the spare roll and let it dangle through.

This morning, at 4:36 AM, I needed to go.  I shall spare you the details that led up to this fateful moment (I assure you, it was epic.)  As fate would have it, the spare roll in the Bogroll Box was all that was left.  Gate still jammed shut, and the roll firmly sealed in such a way that even with a pocket knife I could not get at that 100 grit sandpaper they call a crack cleaner.

Being nearly late for my shift because of this struggle for a clean bottom and while still mounted on the porcelain throne, I ripped the fucker clean off the wall.  I snapped the cover off and took that sumbitch wrapper off with authorita.  I then shoved the hollow shell back into the wall like some secondhand hunting trophy and left an anonymous note for maintenance.

So please, share with me the scenarios where an unexpected boost to the strength, dexterity or constitution stat has played to your advantage in an unexpected way.

[JustCallMeAmber]

I lift to be this guy:

 

 

[The Battle Chef]

4 hours ago, JustCallMeAmber said:

I lift to be this guy:

 

 

I'm 99% certain that's an event at the 2019 Arnold Strongman Classic.

[Mortimer]

Not lifting, but we needed a light bulb holder in a hurry and my colleague and I were due to go to gym class in about 20 min. I told my colleague, let me put on my track shoes, then ran to the fix-it shop and back with the light bulb holder covering near 2km in 12 min. Well in time for us to go to gym class and pass the light bulb holder for the electrician to fix the light. 

[Wagyu Swag]

Cook Senior at a university cafeteria here,

When I first started this job I had been in low volume restaurants for a while. Going from that to feeding 400 people a day was so brutal at first, but a couple of months in I am getting much stronger. Those giant pots of pasta water are getting easier to handle and I am better at handling the bix mixer bowl when it's full. So much mashed potatoes.