On Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 11:03:14 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> On 2021-04-17 9:59 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > On 4/17/2021 10:03 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2021-04-17 1:27 a.m., Leo wrote:
> >>> About ten years ago, we had an ex-governor do a half gainer with a
> >>> full twist
> >>> off his roof and onto the yard by accident. He didn´t make it.
> >>> He was a year less old than I am now. You couldn´t get me on a roof
> >>> with a
> >>> cattle prod.
> >>> I hope Sheldon is OK, and I doubt he was on the roof.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> It was more than 15 years ago that I had a fall off a ladder. I was
> >> cleaning the eaves trough. I was at the front corner where there is an
> >> overhang. I used to climb up the ladder and get in the overhang and
> >> could reach the eaves on the second story from there. I had the
> >> ladder at what I thought was an appropriate angle. I was just about to
> >> get into the overhang when the ladder kicked out. I went down. One leg
> >> slipped between two rungs, and when I hit the ground my other leg
> >> landed on the ladder shoving it back into the shin of the one that was
> >> between the rungs.
> >>
> >> I was in some serious pain. I thought I had broken my shin bone. I
> >> went to the ER and had to wait about 4 hours. As it turned out,
> >> nothing was broken. I got some pain meds. Shortly after than I bought
> >> some good quality gutter guards so I won't ever again have to climb up
> >> there to clean gutters.
> >
> > I pay someone to clean the gutters. You won't find me climbing a ladder
> > for anything. Vertigo.
> >
> > Jill
> With age one's sense of balance deteriorates and whereas I used to feel
> OK walking over the roof to clean gutters etc., I now pay someone to do
> it. It's usually the window cleaner and, ironically, he's in his 70s.


You are a bourgeois fat cat capitalist exploiter, Graham...!!!

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Greg