Originally Posted by
grip grip
Damn! Glad you're unbroken and alive. I'm definitely not installing those damn Christmas lights now. Not worth it.

Yes. Glad you are okay. We could all learn a lesson from this.....me included. Five minutes ago I hopped up on my tractors front end loader to retrieve a tarp to cover my boat from the shelf above. No room to set up a ladder.
Years ago I worked with a guy who retired at 65 then two weeks later fell from his 6 ft stepladder installing Christmas lights. Hit his head on the driveway and died in hospital later that day.