blake murphy wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:40:57 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>
> > "blake murphy" wrote
> >> cshenk wrote:
> >
> >>> Gosh! I always wanted to be 'tall but worth the clime' but I ended up
> >>> 'short but worth the stoop'. (big grin as always!)
> >>>
> >>> Dang, I'd love to be 5ft 8! Positively lofty! Oh! and I could reach
> >>> the
> >>> cabinets without having to drag out the step stool!
> >
> >> do you have a grabber?
> >
> > Naw, step stool at home and when shopping I just jump up and down a
little
> > til some helpful taller sort comes by laughing and gets down what I cant
> > reach.
> >
> > If I had a grabber and miscalulated, I might drop a can on my head which
> > would doubtless smoosh me down even further ;-)
>
> i don't carry my grabber to the grocery store (i do have a set of tongs in
> my reticule to extend my reach a little bit).
>
> you do have to be careful with the grabber, but to get one item, i think
it
> would be less trouble than dragging out the step-stool, unfolding it,
> moving it into place, then re-folding it and putting it away.
>
> on the other hand, you can more easily see what's up there with the
> step-stool.


Where do you get these grabber thingies? I'd like to get one for my
mom...and I could even see using one myself to get junk off of the top
shelves.


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Best
Greg