Del, this was Houston after Ike. I was cleaning up in the Crosby Atascocita area, and the girl I was with knew the Atascocita fire chief. He found out about me, and called us over to get some widowmakers out of his trees. He met us in a sling. Robin said "what happened?" He said well, tried to do it from a ladder. Then she asked him if his truck got smashed during Ike and he turned beet red and admitted the ladder wasn't quite long enough...
I asked him how many homeowner ladder accidents he had responded to, and he amazingly said, well, I'm a fireman, we know about ladders...
Turns out the reason he called Robin was he had heard about me and knew I was from out of town and was hoping to keep it a secret... fat chance, lol

