'Ooops!, there goes the Holiday Bonus' Forklift Incident

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Love it Charles, if one were to ask what diorama they would wish to build, I don't think anyone would say
"I know! a forklift sailing off a loading dock!". You Sir are a master of sublime originality and one awesome modeler...BRAVO!
Well here comes another one of Jim's tall but true tales. As a much younger man just out of the service I landed my first job at a vinyl
cloth warehouse handling huge rolls weighing hundreds of pounds that could only be moved about by forklift.
They were strapped on pallets and stacked on huge steel shelving many feet high.

Well, I came around a corner rather quickly and the corner of the pallet I was carrying caught the corner of a pallet on the bottom shelf.
Tearing down an entire section and sending tons of rolls crashing down on me! If it were not for the protective roll cage
I would have been squashed like a bug. One roll came at such an angle that it sailed through the cab and mangled the steering wheel.
I watched it "float" by as if in slow motion just inches from my nose, I sat in shock for a moment or two and realized what had just happened
I did not get even a scratch! Just one of many incidents in my life when I should have been killed..,The wife says "God don't want you"


Jim.

Wow Jim!!! What a story. Thanks so much for sharing. Your wife was probably correct. The Almighty was not ready for you, yet.

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That's a great little dio Charles

Thank you very much.