-did i get your attention?

ok so i do side contracting work for a networking company, today they said bring a ladder, so i did, they forgot to tell me i need a 40 Foot ladder, to climb on the roof of a 3 story appartment building.

so we get the ladder and we dont even know how to extend it, after 20 minutes of struggling with it we secure it to the corner of the roof, i volunteer cause im the leader, i get up 1/4 of the way and stop, they tell me to come back down and that they'll cancel it, but i said no and kept going.
1/2 way and i stop again, it feel like im 1 mile up, i start to think about dying and my family.
they start to tell me to give up and come down but i tried to keep my pride and determined to take a few more steps of courage.
I go a few more steps and im 3/4 of the way there. this is where the men get seperated from the boys.
At this point the risk of dying is very significant, if i take anymore steps i would have to climb the roof if i got in trouble so i say "jesus" and went forward, i felt like i was not even in my body.
i got to the roof i hurriedly put my hands on it and pushed off the ladder and it began to slide off, luckily my body was on the roof but it was steeply inclined.
i quickly crawled to the top of the roof and layed on my back as my co-workers cheered on the ground.


chapter 2 will be another day

3/26/2008 4:25:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isYF5E0WxGU

3/26/2008 4:25:44 PM

sounds like you were just being a big weenie

3/26/2008 4:26:18 PM

rats.

we were so close too!

3/26/2008 4:26:56 PM

actually I didn't almost die, I didn't even get hurt.

3/26/2008 4:27:03 PM

so are you still up there?

3/26/2008 4:27:05 PM

wut

3/26/2008 4:28:05 PM

Would your insurance have covered it if you fell of the roof or off of the ladder near the roof? (Serious question). I know some work policies you have to be insured for different heights, stories, etc.

3/26/2008 4:28:20 PM

my e-penis is smaller than yours

3/26/2008 4:28:38 PM

Not knowing how to use an extension ladder FTL

3/26/2008 4:28:56 PM

i like how this would have been a case of darwinism, given the poster

3/26/2008 4:31:25 PM

you guys are full of shit. yall probalby have never been higher than 10ft off the ground
you dont realise how scary it is until you are up there.
next time you go by an apartment building imagine having to climb on top of it on a flimsy ladder

3/26/2008 4:31:43 PM

^^yeah and i made it down so what does that say

3/26/2008 4:32:11 PM

you thought you were going to die and you lived?

File a class action lawsuit

3/26/2008 4:37:02 PM

something as simple as hanging an 8x12 banner between two guys on 20 ft ladders is death defying
40 is Godly
gg on not dying

3/26/2008 4:40:49 PM

pussy, you should try doing that with 30 lbs of tools hanging on you, an air hose and 2 20# bundles of shingles, 20-30 times in a day

3/26/2008 4:43:26 PM

roofing is rough, i give ya that.

3/26/2008 4:45:44 PM

Quote :

"you guys are full of shit. yall probalby have never been higher than 10ft off the ground"

haha. actually my occupation has me thousands of feet off the ground every day.

but in respect to what you meant, ^^.

3/26/2008 4:47:51 PM

how did you get down?

3/26/2008 4:49:07 PM

like a normal person with testicles i'm guessing

3/26/2008 4:49:47 PM

^^thats chapter 3

but for real who here actually does roofing, or are you guys just talking out of your ass

3/26/2008 5:33:41 PM

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3/26/2008 5:42:09 PM

so what was it like for your first tiem, im sure you were just as scared as me

3/26/2008 5:45:19 PM

LAFTAAAAAAAAA!

3/26/2008 5:45:39 PM

Quote :

"LAFTAAAAAAAAA!"

3/26/2008 5:46:15 PM

^who are you, i only know a few people who do that

3/26/2008 5:46:31 PM

thats the first time I've ever done it


I'm here on a mission

3/26/2008 5:48:39 PM

LAFTAAAAAAAAA!

3/26/2008 5:49:55 PM

3/26/2008 5:56:45 PM

chemb b

3/26/2008 5:57:12 PM

does anyone know what the going rate is per hour for risking your life on top of a roof.

now this company is trying to get me to reduce my per hour rate cause i was "ineffective" and "out of my comfort zone"

wtf, i only charged them $75/hr, thats cheeap

3/28/2008 5:04:26 PM

75 an hour is more than fair. especially considering the hazard. they're a bunch of jewfucks for implying that you couldnt do your best work because you were scared on the way up the ladder

but one question, how do they know you were out of your element? i guess you made a big deal about the fear?

3/28/2008 5:07:49 PM

i was helping my uncle hang a tire swing, we had to use a 40 ft ladder. he went up the ladder, i offered, but the dang thing looked crazy. it was secure. the only real way of him falling would of have to been backwards.


ever since my snowboarding accident im not so happy with heights. everytime im on a ladder, or high up i just keep thinkin... "ima break my leg"

3/28/2008 5:09:32 PM

one of their techs was there, he refused to do it thats why i was called,
but the whole me stopping a bunch of times and shaking kinda of tipped him off
also i used a rope to get down along with the ladder,

but i just went back out today, they had a veteran guys, he seems like 20 years old, but he just walked up there like he was walking on the sidewalk, we were just like
so yeah, now i feel like a little girl but still its scary

3/28/2008 5:10:54 PM

Yeah, you're better off to stay relaxed and just do it. All that shaking isn't good for you. But I feel you. I'll climb scaffolding like a goat, used to work 4 stories up every day, but I fucking hate steep pitched roofs.

3/28/2008 6:45:29 PM

i cant imagine this

3/28/2008 6:51:39 PM

yeah back then you had to do shit like that or starve along with your family

i was out at a prison camp in alamance county today. anyways, we had access because we are providing them with radical solutions. no idea why this place was still in use. if anyone knows the graham area, its on a place called prison camp road. HA HA

but i was standing outside this building today, out on the old basketball court... kinda looking around at all the old shit there, and thinking about how it was all hand built. and then i started thinking about how much of a pussy i was because i make my money sitting down.

3/28/2008 6:57:44 PM

My friend has almost died, like, 5 times in her life.

So I get to hear about it all the time.

And she gets to take benzos and act like an actuary every time I'm about to do something less than perfectly safe.

3/28/2008 7:02:22 PM

bitches are fucking psycho. i know exactly what you're talking about, and there's not a guy on earth who acts that way.

3/28/2008 7:07:41 PM

earlier this week i was visiting a customer and he took me up in his bucket truck 75 feet in the air. that shit aint no joke esp when it starts to sway! i kept my cool

3/28/2008 7:17:40 PM

id take you on a bucket truck too girl

3/28/2008 7:22:14 PM

Lol

3/28/2008 7:23:55 PM

one day im gonna use a line like that and im gonna get a PM and then its gonna be on

3/28/2008 7:30:37 PM

<---hates ladders

3/28/2008 7:39:30 PM