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The old fart alter cocker shuffle

The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle as one fairly long run on sentence unwittingly made locally famous courtesy residents here at Highland Manor Apartments as first one foot and then the other painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged across the cement walkway making absolutely sure the entire foot touches the ground, (analogous to geriatric version of the hokey pokey) made like toe tilly particularly more trip lee dangerous for valley girls, and posing an obvious challenge, when unspecified oblivious tenant yakking away to themselves unknowingly shakily shambles, (which elderly folk blindly risking life and limb), while tethered to an oxygen tank gingerly, precariously, and zanily maneuvers a walker or wheelchair while chatting vis a vis bluetooth; (a short-range wireless technology standard used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks: In the most widely used mode, transmission power limited to 2.5 milliwatts, giving it a very short range of up to 10 metres) communication maintained thru miniature electronic paraphernalia videlicet, now returning to aforementioned abandoned, harried, and suspended lodger left poised to strike hard surface, when going about their routine task additionally rendered cumbersome as occupant carefully finagles old gnarled bent fingers to manipulate requisite fob, (a handy dandy little device that works on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) triggered courtesy waving or tapping motion of little plastic doodad) near a corresponding reader, and voilá – the door unlocks, - which technology interestingly enough linkedin to bit of curious history, when remote keyless entry patented in 1981 by Paul Lipschultz, who worked for Neimans, (a supplier of security components to the car industry) and developed a number of automotive security devices: His electrically actuated lock system could be controlled by using a handheld fob to stream infrared data automatically, electronically, inevitably, and officially granting permission for our inhabitant, or unsuspecting intruder (since very little – read none security installed here) to enter the front door, presenting an unwelcoming opportunistic, idealistic, and antagonistic accident about to happen if the track opening and closing entryway portal (bumped up against thin carpeting) slightly bunched up presents a raised lipped surface edge (barely perceptible to those who present a sight for sore eyes), which uneven impediment the literal downfall for many a resident at Highland Manor Apartment, who tripped and fell ofttimes sustaining significant injuries to their fragile lovely bones.

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