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<blockquote data-quote="criticalbass" data-source="post: 1396612" data-attributes="member: 711">Rough water? bring it on.&nbsp; High places, nope.&nbsp; Different phobias for different folks.&nbsp; Promised wife no more waves over four feet several years ago.&nbsp; Still miss it.&nbsp; High place fears were conquered in college to keep the best job in town at the time, but I still don&#039;t like &#039;em.&nbsp; Would jump out of an airplane under certain conditions.&nbsp; 1.&nbsp; It&#039;s on fire.&nbsp; 2.&nbsp; Someone is behind me with a knife and a gun, and I am convinced they&#039;ll use one or both.&nbsp; 3.&nbsp; I am seven drinks drunk.Did I mention I don&#039;t like high places?&nbsp; My dad&#039;s old TV antenna had broken.&nbsp; Half was hanging by one big aluminum wire,and when it would blow into the mast it would kill his reception.&nbsp; He demanded that I take his rotten wooden ladder, climb to his steep metal roof, pull up the ladder, place it against the poorly guyed TV antenna pole, climb up, and cut the wire.&nbsp; Me:&nbsp; &quot;Yeah, right.&quot;&nbsp; Dad:&nbsp; &quot;you&#039;ve always been a chicken$h!+.&quot;&nbsp; Me:&nbsp; &quot;Where&#039;s your .22?&quot;&nbsp; Dad:&nbsp; You have never been that good a shot.&nbsp; Me:&nbsp; &quot;Watch this.&quot;&nbsp; Second shot cut the wire and the falling half of the antenna nearly hit him.&nbsp; Priceless.He underestimated me for the first 43 years of my life.&nbsp; After that, he didn&#039;t any more.&nbsp; Much more than priceless.&nbsp; Too bad I didn&#039;t show him who I was for so many years.&nbsp; My best memories of him are of the few years he had left after that.&nbsp; I do miss him so much.&nbsp; CB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="criticalbass, post: 1396612, member: 711"] Rough water? bring it on. High places, nope. Different phobias for different folks. Promised wife no more waves over four feet several years ago. Still miss it. High place fears were conquered in college to keep the best job in town at the time, but I still don't like 'em. Would jump out of an airplane under certain conditions. 1. It's on fire. 2. Someone is behind me with a knife and a gun, and I am convinced they'll use one or both. 3. I am seven drinks drunk. Did I mention I don't like high places? My dad's old TV antenna had broken. Half was hanging by one big aluminum wire,and when it would blow into the mast it would kill his reception. He demanded that I take his rotten wooden ladder, climb to his steep metal roof, pull up the ladder, place it against the poorly guyed TV antenna pole, climb up, and cut the wire. Me: "Yeah, right." Dad: "you've always been a chicken$h!+." Me: "Where's your .22?" Dad: You have never been that good a shot. Me: "Watch this." Second shot cut the wire and the falling half of the antenna nearly hit him. Priceless. He underestimated me for the first 43 years of my life. After that, he didn't any more. Much more than priceless. Too bad I didn't show him who I was for so many years. My best memories of him are of the few years he had left after that. I do miss him so much. CB [/QUOTE]

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