Posted by P and R Pete on February 23, 2009 at 12:35:02 from (173.86.63.108):
Hey, guys, I have a question. I'll get to it later.
First, I was at work on an evening-shift a few days ago. I got the details of the 'incident' that happened at home, later on.
Here's how it transpired:
A storm, alternating sleet and snow, begins late afternoon. Slippery roads, couple of local fender-benders over the evening, not a huge accumulation.
The Redhead, at home with the kids, notices that the satellite reception is deteriorating, and after talking to her mom, hatches a plan.
Probably just wasn't sufficiently long in it's incubation, is all.
Anyway, her mom tells her that when snow accumulates on their satellite dish, she goes out with a broom and brushes it off, and all is back to normal. The problem is that mom's satellite dish, (they of greater altitude than us), happens to sit on the railing of their deck. We, whose signal must clear a line of trees, have our satellite dish on the peak of our highest roof of our split-level.
Mind you, it is pitch-black out, 8:30 PM, and all the snow and sleet and wind and stuff.
And the Redhead is phobic of heights.
If she looks at a picture in a magazine of a riveter on an I-beam, her palms start to sweat.
No matter. Home-entertainment is my baby's wish. So she enlists the daughter to hold a flashlight, and with broom in hand, she uses a stepladder to climb up on the roof.
THIS stepladder, still in situ...
No mean feat right there! As she climbs, without gloves, toward the peak of the right-hand roof, she begins to realize how slippery it is, and that she cannot head back down the slope for fear of losing traction, pitching off the roof, and landing on the deck.
Gone, now, is any consideration of reaching the 3-story-high satellite dish, with her fear of height, in the black of night, to reach around it with the broom to clean it off.
So she sends the daughter in to mobilize the boys. Meanwhile, as it is easier and seems less risky to climb rather than to descend, she abandons the broom, and proceeds to the peak of the high roof. But at least, she has an 'out', for at the bottom of the downslope on the other side... a chimney.
So she slides down and grabs the chimney, lowers herself to the lower roof, uses the rain gutter to descend that roof to the window where the boys have raised the sash and removed the screen from the inside, and makes good her escape.
The broom, however, continues to lay where it was abandoned.
This was so wrong, on so many levels, that 5 days later, I still can't get my head around it.
Which leads me to my question...
Any of you gentlemen ever hear, in your travels, of a Husbands-of-Redheads Anonymous?
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