Anyone else a little more careful this year after two local people died decorating homes for Christmas? One man in Grand Prairie was electrocuted while stringing Christmas lights. My thoughts go back to the past two years when I have climbed the ladder and strung my own lights. (Who else is going to do it, right?) You'll notice there are no lights on my house this year. Not just because of the death, but it justified my lack of motivation to get them out of the shed.
Then a woman in Little Elm fell while climbing up the steps to her attic to get Christmas decorations. Maybe we all need to be a little more careful. Interesting how we don't think about being safe until something happens. Human nature, I guess. Like the fact that ever since I was part of an emergency landing on a airplane, I make sure I know where the nearest exit is when I get on one. For the first few trips after that, before we took off I had to let down my tray table to make sure there were no bomb threats left there. Neurotic or cautious? I'll let the people decide.
We can't live our lives in fear. We can't stop getting on the highway because so many accidents happen each week. We can't stop traveling in airplanes because of the lunatics out there. And we can't stop putting up decorations because we're afraid of falling. Things happen. People get hurt.
Just be a little more careful out there.
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