| Reflections on ladder safety from a college house | | | | house, but somehow I made a little money and more |
| painter: Things Werner ladders were never meant to | | | | miraculously, no one was crippled falling off a ladder. |
| do | | | | This experience came back to me recently while I |
| Like many other starving college students, I had my job | | | | was watching an infomercial for the Little Giant Ladder |
| no one in their right mind would have taken. Of course, | | | | System. I almost cried to see how easily they did jobs |
| it came with the promise of more money than I had | | | | with a Little Giant I nearly died doing with my traditional |
| ever seen. This too-good-to-be-true dream job was | | | | Werner ladders. This has prompted me to pass on |
| managing a summer house painting business in Park | | | | some wisdom I have learned about ladder safety to |
| City, Utah. | | | | future generations of enterprising college students. |
| I started with no idea how to run a business or paint a | | | | |