This Is What You Call Desperation

One of our guys broke his knee cap and another one quit. ( Thank the Lord ) This leaves us in a very difficult position in our busiest season. So how did our company handle the situation? They put me back out in the field.

Now you guys know that I should never be allowed on a computer, much less driving a vehicle in rush hour traffic! You can hear the new guy that I'm supposed to be training, cry like a baby, every time I enter a new lane of traffic. We need your prayers!

All ladder jobs are booked up until Nov. 12, 2012

Phil, some guys will probably not get that one but I'm sure my wife did.

I started working ADC after I broke my knee with a chain binder. No ladder work, but ground trapping with a cast up to my hip. Get that guy back in the game.

Mike, had a customer in his eighties ask me how old I was and did I like working full time again.

I told him that I would be 70 in December and that at my age it's kind of fun to still be appreciated. On my next job, a Fleet & Farm store, the guy we deal with, indicated that I was a step up from the younger guys. ( I had a hard time getting my head to fit through the doorway of the truck )

Now don't get me wrong; the guy that got hurt is a really good employee. But there is a difference between guys like you and I and the normal run of people. I walked out of a hospital three days later, after falling two stories and landing on my head. If I wasn't such a wuss, I'd have only spent one day.

I hope I am still in the field in 23 years Paul. My ladder gets heavier every day, and Im wondering when I will need a full time guy just to help me set it and put it up.