[TheForge] Shop Communications

[Andrew Vida]

PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/28/2008 6:43:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
> lp.brown at verizon.net writes:
> In case you do something to almost kill yourself  you might like to have it. 
> As I get older I don't bounce as well and things  seem to sink in deeper. I 
> use a cell phone as they work almost everywhere I  am and I still can't hear 
> it, over the welder most of the time ;-)  but  I can call out.
> L Brown
>  
> 
> Really a good point, Larry. As I roll up to that three score and ten I  have 
> to recognize the increasing likelihood of serious injury through  general 
> ineptness, decrepitness, stupidness and general brainlessness . I  am usually in 
> the shop by myself for hours at a time. No one ever checks. I  could be out 
> there bleeding all day and no one would know. I wonder how many  others of us are 
> similarly vulnerable and what we are doing about it.

	Jesus... this is just plain depressing.