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Default We had beef stew tonight

On 3/13/2021 5:43 AM, Ophelia wrote:
> 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!


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