It was an offhand comment, no big deal, except I'm going to make a big deal about it.

Hi, I'm Dave, welcome to walking its fitness, a daily 10-minute podcast designed to provide you

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The green pollen sheen of Myrtle Beach continues.

Temperatures though today don't feel like spring.

We have cooled off significantly.

But the sky is blue and it's a beautiful morning.

So I was at the grocery store a few days ago this week and I was walking from the store to my car across the parking lot.

And there was a woman who had just finished loading the groceries into her car.

And she was in the process of taking the cart back to the cart place and an

employee of the grocery store said I'll take that for you and the woman said thank you

you saved me some steps that, you saved me some steps. That phrase, you saved me some steps,

caught my attention. It was not a big deal. The woman was expressing gratitude that someone was willing to help her.

I'll take that card for you.

You don't have to finish the process of returning it.

And you save me some steps was probably this innocuous,

you know, first thing that pops into the mind kind of a comment.

But my first reaction, the first thing that popped into my mind was,

wait a minute, why would you want to save some steps?

These steps are investing in your health what's what the

attitude of you saved me some steps as opposed to thanks I got it because I

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