[TheForge] Shop Communications

[Larry Brown]

>

Years ago when they became cheaper and worked more places in my area, my 
wife asked me,"So if you get hurt what are you going to do, throw your 
beeper at someone if they come by and hope they notice?" So I thought about 
it and went for the phone. I work in a lot of construction yards and job 
site on weekends and my wife has no idea where I am so, if I almost do 
myself in it might be Monday morning till someone realizes it. I'm edging 
on 50 and have a case of "Mush for brains" sometimes. I've been doing this 
for thirty years and hope I still have a lot of luck in the bank, May we all
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.
>
>Don Plummer