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Default We had beef stew tonight

On 13/03/2021 05:46, Leo wrote:
> This is a true story.
> Yesterday, I boiled some beef chunks along with BtB and a small can of tomato
> sauce for beef stew. One section of my side fence had five slats knocked out
> by the neighbor kid kicking balls against it, so I decided to hammer them
> back into place.
> I gathered the materials together along with a old scissor chair, so I could
> pull out nails and staples while sitting down before banging the slats into
> the fence again. I gathered the slats and sat down on the chair, ripped right
> through and found myself smooshed on the bottom of the scissor in a fetal
> position with my legs straight up in the air.
> I was in a clamp with nobody around.
> I panicked for a couple of minutes, strained a third of the way out of the
> clamp, and rocked side-to-side until I fell onto the grass, extricated
> myself, pulled out the nails from the slats, fixed the fence, discarded the
> chair and announced to the women that we would be eating fast-food.
> We had beef stew tonight.
>
> leo
>

I am very sorry to hear that!!! It must have been terrifying when you
felt you were stuck and no one around to help!!

I am pleased you managed to get out sefely!