Red Green wrote:
(snip)
Well 15 years ago or so I came down from only 11 ft...on to
asphalt...landed on one leg...that was straight rigid. Nine pins and a
plate later (which I had removed a year after) I say I'm grateful that
today it only hurts half the time - every other step.


Ouch! My leg hurts just reading that. A buddy at work that I eat lunch
with most days had a similar experience, and similar rebuild work. He
was off a couple of months, and it took a year before he was walking
halfway normally. Another coworker actually managed to break his
back/pelvis in a similar accident. They did what they could, but he
ain't ever gonna be right again. I was already feeling my age and being
more cautious before their accidents, since I could tell my sense of
balance wasn't what it used to be. (I started getting queasy every time
I was near a dropoff, and I used to free-climb rock and work on scaffold
all the time as a kid. WTF?)

Anyway, now I do anything off the ground a lot more carefully, and
anything higher than my 1-story roof, I pay somebody else to do.

--
aem sends...