Charles wrote:
"Moe" wrote in message
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Wade Lippman wrote:

I have always been terrified of going up on my roof. Today I decided
that was silly; people spend all day on them, how dangerous could it be.
It was something I had to get over.
Walking up the roof is actually pretty easy, but walking down it is not.
Walking forward I feel like I might fall, and walking backwards is really
clumsy. I think it is just harder to keep your weight over your feet
going down than up.
How is it best done?

You tie a long rope to the bumper of the car, and then throw it over the
roof to use as a safety line.


Keep the car keys in your pocket.




And make sure that your wife doesn't have her own set of keys. G

Poisonally, if I tried that trick I'd raise the hood and disconnect the
negative battery cable.

Come to think of it, the stupid 2004 Lincoln LS I'm driving now has its
battery in back, under the trunk floor next to the spare. I suppose
there's less heat there, so maybe the battery life will be better, but
the battery has a venting nipple coming out of it which connects to a
hose dumping the battery's fumes outside the trunk. That probably means
when I do need a new battery I'll have to buy it from a Ford/Lincoln
dealer, likely at twice the price of a Die Hard.

Jeff (Who remembers his dad's cars with their batteries under the right
front seat, with no special venting hose either.)

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