Dec 1 2013

Every once in a while, in the housing industry, people are in a position where they have to move furniture into their new home before it has been completed. That is the case in this particular incident.
It was like a psychic moment. I saw it before it happened. The two massive human beings were carrying an upright piano down a flight of stairs. You've seen the type, their necks start at their ears instead of their jaws, theirs arms stick out sideways because their biceps are too big to hang downward. In this case there were two  of them and they seemed to be having very little problem with the piano. Then I saw it, the bottom behemoth missed a step, I saw myself slip in behind him, brace myself, place my hands on his back, I saw him taking the split second I gave him to drop his foot to the floor, and, I might add, I even saw the placement of my own feet so he would not land upon either of them. Once he was steadied I saw his appreciation of this small man who lent a hand in time of need. I saw it all. Too bad it didn't turn out that way.
You know, I'm not a zoologist or biologist, I don't claim to know a lot about organisms and their functions or evolution. What I would like to know is, is there a species on the planet, when falling, will not try to lower their paws, or legs, or whatever type of equipment they have to move on, so as to land upon that equipment so as not to injure themselves? None come to my mind.
So, when I saw this guy shoot his leg upward in an effort to regain his footing on the tread he missed 4 risers ago. My first thought, after, oh, this isn't good, was, when they coined the phrase, "All brawn and no brains", this was the guy they  were talking about. What happened next wasn't pretty, when that monolith hit my little 5 foot 9 inch frame he sent me through the drywall and studs like toothpaste through a tube. He and his piano came through as well, along with dumber, who decided to ride the piano down. Lucky for me we didn't make it to the cement wall, our momentum was halted by a furnace, it was a high efficient Lennox Elite Series EL296V Model number UH070XV36B, you're probably wondering how I know so much about it. Easy, my left eye was only a quarter inch from the label.
Sometimes doctors will ask you to rate your pain on "a scale of 1 to 10" 10 being the high end. I can remember a few painful events in my life, my first broken nose I'll give a 2, the second and third time, maybe 3s. Fish hook in the leg an easy 1. Freezing my right ear 0, thawing of same 6. Catching the end of my nose on a stuccoed column, a 5. So as you can see I haven't had a lot of experience with pain, and I would think that a 10 would come just south of the tunnel with the light at the other end, so I'm going to rate the piano resting on the big toe of my right foot an 8 and one half.
I really misread my first psychic experience.

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