My friend Frank and his roof

A beautiful autumn day in September 2005 and what am I doing?

I have to do a visitation in hospital. Well, it is my granny and I like her. So I go. After two hours conversation with four old ladies, I decided to go home.

From the corridor of the hospital I could see into a room and what did I saw?

"Frank ...?" "Are you Frank?"

And really, in this room my old fellow Frank H. was laying in bed. But how he was looking - a federation around the head and both legs in gypsum!

"Tell, old boy, what was happening?"

And Frank told: He wanted to cover his roof with his brother Eric. First the new roofing tiles have to put upward. So they did not have to run always up and down, Eric managed a pulley.

Eric was on the roof, receiving the bricks. Frank was standing down and fastened one after another package roofing tiles to the pulley-block and pulled it up. Eyerything was alright for 3 hours, until the last two packages were left. "So this both packages and we are ready" Frank thought. "Why one at a time? This both I will take together." A word and a blow.

So the last two packages of roofing tiles were bundled together to the pulley and were pulled upward. When the packages passed the middle of the way upward, Frank noticed, that his feet lost the ground.

The roofing tiles were heavier than himself. They rushed to ground and pulled Frank upward at one go. Unfortunately he didn´t drop the rope of the pulley and so he rushed upward. There arrived, he slammed with the head to the arm of the pulley and… now he left the rope … his journey went down!

Reaching the ground, the result was a brain vibration, a broken basin and two broken legs.

Completely honestly: I was sorry for Frank, but I could not refrain from laughing.

"It is OK, when you are laughting. Everybody I tell the story is laughting. But there is a good thing: I am private insured and can select between 3 meals daily here. The nurses are more friendly and sometimes more pretty than in the normal station!"

I looked for the nurses and was persuaded - they were very pretty.

By the way: Frank´s roof has to wait probably for 6 - 8 weeks!