quad supervised roof replacement from the ground because of that balance thing, and because one of the last times he stood up high, at least on a dining room chair-high, on a porch to change a light fixture, one of the legs on the chair gave way, throwing him as violently downward in regression to the top of the chair, then to the porch, then to the ground as violently anyone should be thrown.
I could see it happening again, even though that was 10 years ago. I climbed up 12 ft to the top of the ladder fine as can be, and if there was an elevator to get me onto the roof, I woulda been fine walking around up there (which I have managed to get over all fear of heights since I was a kid), but the exchange from ladder to roof-level is what stopped me. I'm not so much afraid of heights as I was before, I am just afraid of the exchange. Then I heard stories about other people falling off roofs before, and I felt thoroughly vindicated. This is covered in my personnel files, but I thought it beared repeating.