ache

The audience has been steadily aging as well, feeling every ache that the decade between the show’s first season and the present has inflicted.

He had toiled at car washes the whole time — crouching to scrub tires, stretching to dry roofs and returning home each night with aching heels and knots in his neck.

And then, at the farmers market, a friendly vendor was talking to another regular about their aches and pains.

He was tired and his body ached, he says, but the boss was “mean” and ordered him to get back to work.

If your hips ache a bit when you walk the corridors, he says, “maybe you should go take that hike in the Rockies sooner than later.”