Geek On A Hot Shingle Roof

I was reattaching the leaf guard on the top of the rain gutter on my garage, because when I went to clean them last weekend, I found they were installed upside down. I finished that project and decided to climb up to the top of the roof, so I could get to the rain gutters I couldn’t reach from my ladder. I decided to do this at about 12:15 pm today, which for my readers who don’t leave their cave much (tseng, I’m talking to you..), the ambient air temperature was in the 80′s.

The above is called foreshadowing. See, I did learn something in high school literature classes.

I managed to get to the top of the ladder and onto the roof, which all of a sudden seemed a lot steeper than I thought it would be. so steep, standing up didn’t seem to be a real posibility, so I proceeded to make my way to the top of the roof. About half way there, I realized something:

MY HANDS ARE ON FIRE!!!111!1!!11!!1!!onehundredandeleven!!11!

Not literally on fire, but I might as well should have been pushing my hand against a hot stove top. I spun around and sat down, thankful that my shorts didn’t appear to transmit so much heat into my buttocks and freaked out for 2-3 seconds. Ow Ow OW.

There wasn’t really anything else to do at this point by head back from whence I came. More Hand Burning commenced. I made it down from the roof, and began rinsing my hands under cool water.

In fact, I think it’s time for a little more of that. Ow.

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