basilisk wrote:
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basilisk wrote:

I fell off a ladder yesterday, too much stuff in the way, ladder too near
vertical, in too big a hurry.

I was putting up siding and got over balanced, fortunately I escaped with
one scraped up leg and a sore shoulder(the bad one of course).

I'm too old to be making these kind of mistakes.

Think, plan, take your time, there is only one of you.

basilisk
Glad to hear it wasn't more serious. As we all get older, it's amazing
how much less immortal we feel.

So true. This was a short tumble (last legal step on a six foot step
ladder),
but people are killed and permanently disabled from such short falls.
I'm fortunate that it was my pride that took the biggest lick.

One should never think that "I'll get away with it this time" because you
might not.

basilisk

My grandpa (my Dad's Dad) died in the mid 1960s (when I was about 4
years old) from head trauma suffered from falling off an ordinary six
foot step ladder while working on his first floor gutters. I was my
Dad's firstborn and apparently the apple of my Grandpa's eye, but I was
so young I don't remember him... I often wonder how my life would be
different if he hadn't left so soon.

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