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That week last summer where everything went wrong
Had a week back in June where I dropped a load of steel beams on a job site near Houston because the wind caught my sling just right. Felt like the worst operator alive for three days straight. Anyone else have a stretch where every lift felt cursed?
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karen_west5917d ago
You're making it sound like the end of the world, @robin_roberts84, when really it's just a bad week on the job. Isn't that just part of the deal in this line of work?
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robin_roberts8417d ago
Flatbed truck I used to drive had a load of lumber shift on me outside Baton Rouge cause I didn't pay attention to the tie-downs after a rain. That was the start of a week where I blew a fuse on the lift gate and hit a low-hanging branch that took out a side mirror. Sometimes it's not the big stuff that gets you, it's the small things piling up that make you feel like you're just spinning your tires.
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Wind caught my ladder last month, sent me sliding down a ditch with a busted knee.
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