12-23-2024, 12:39 PM
I’m doing the final clean out of our office. Lugging desks out, breaking down cubicles and hauling them away, etc. Mrs. G is paranoid that I’ll hurt my back. It’s tender no doubt.
But of all the stupid things I think I bruised a rib today. Hurts when I inhale. Went to open the doors to our dumpster this morning. Everyone in the area has been watching me fill it with stuff that isn’t just regular trash , and if I don’t lock it, the tweakers will dig into it and toss what they don’t want all over the place.
This morning, I could see that someone had gone to town trying to bust the lock to get into the dumpster. It had been pounded on, drilled and had a broken off screw driver in the keyhole. That’s the sign of a true tweaker… spend an inordinate amount of time on the lock, when he could have just hopped over the gate that the lock secures and get into the dumpster anyway.
Anywho, borrowed a large bolt cutter from the neighbors to cut the lock off. As I’ve done in the past, I braced one of the long handles of the cutter against my chest and pulled hard on the other handle. Well, worked when I had several extra pounds of padding in my chest… pulled hard and quickly realized this was now a mistake and that my ribs aren’t the best brace for a bolt cutter.
But of all the stupid things I think I bruised a rib today. Hurts when I inhale. Went to open the doors to our dumpster this morning. Everyone in the area has been watching me fill it with stuff that isn’t just regular trash , and if I don’t lock it, the tweakers will dig into it and toss what they don’t want all over the place.
This morning, I could see that someone had gone to town trying to bust the lock to get into the dumpster. It had been pounded on, drilled and had a broken off screw driver in the keyhole. That’s the sign of a true tweaker… spend an inordinate amount of time on the lock, when he could have just hopped over the gate that the lock secures and get into the dumpster anyway.
Anywho, borrowed a large bolt cutter from the neighbors to cut the lock off. As I’ve done in the past, I braced one of the long handles of the cutter against my chest and pulled hard on the other handle. Well, worked when I had several extra pounds of padding in my chest… pulled hard and quickly realized this was now a mistake and that my ribs aren’t the best brace for a bolt cutter.