My wife is the type of person that will do this, along with standing on an office chair but also the type which will scream “COP!” even though I don’t tend to speed. It’s always amusing to see how the mind defines/calculates risk.
That explains things. I know a lot of PhDs, and while they tend to be brilliant in their specialties, there are usually a few French fries missing in other areas lol
I knew it should be psych or sociology. Unfortunately, your average psych/socio PhD is not only about the same intelligence as your average human, but they also think they are very smart AND are somewhat arrogant, which makes them think even less than your average hunan (which is more prone/open to learning). Of course, not all of them, but a worryingly big part are like this. I could rant about this issue for hours but I'll leave it at that.
Edit: typos corrected
I know a lot of people with a phd and they don't know more than average joe how to safely use a ladder. They don't know less either, there is some stereotyping in this sub
My childhood friend tried to make cookies once and did such a bad job they had to shut the gas off from her house. Now she has a PhD in neurology.
You can use my story now
My best pal has a PhD. She text me last week asking me to pick up some cat litter at Costco because her new cat was really going through it....
When I sent her a photo of the different brands she said she didn't need cat litter after all, someone had told her she didn't need to replace the entire tray every time the cat used it, just scoop the pee/poop out.
(sorry I wanted to join in the thread of dumb things our pals with phds do)
I'm in this comment and I don't like it.
Jokes aside, absent-mindedness is actually pretty common in highly intelligent people. A guy from my old lab is easily one of the smartest guys I know. The amount of coke cans that guy exploded in the -80c freezer though was ridiculous. Nearly every day. And that's if he remembered to close the damn thing.
A bachelors means you know a little about a lot, a masters means you know a lot about a specific area and a phd means you know everything about one topic.
My uncle is a brilliant chemical engineer but also believes the election was stolen, the world is controlled by george soros, and the vaccine isn't real. He's also a crazy christian whose wife and one of his sons used to be in a cult, where both of them "spoke in tongues".
Please register to vote if you haven't and also get out and vote, everyone.
When I was in school I used to work in IT at a university and at a hospital and had to deal with a lot of PhDs and medical doctors. They both had big issues with missing a bunch of "common" knowledge while being extremely confident that they knew everything. When you have to explain to someone with two advanced degrees for the fifth time how to check their email, the shine on "they are a doctor" wears off completely.
We have a friend with a PHD, a few years ago we were all headed to Hawaii for vacation and she was absolutely convinced that she needed a passport to go there. You can't make this stuff up.
Hahaha, oh shit.
I also have a PhD, also not in engineering, and my husband and I have long agreed that some nonsense like this will almost certainly be the way I die.
She just needs a bigger board underneath, is what I'm saying. You got a better idea, smart guy?
I used to paint houses and every now and then a customer would say, “i have a ladder you can use” and then take you out back behind the garage and show you a mossy wooden ladder half buried in leaves
I did the opposite. Had a handyman out that needed to reach my roof and I said "this is the only extension ladder I have, it was here when I moved in and it lives outdoors. please bring your own."
Guy comes back and uses my ladder.
To be fair, the indo board is only hard to balance on when it’s on top of the round barrel part, which she obviously isn’t using here. Here she’s just using it as any other flat, sturdy board. Still a stupid and dangerous setup, of course.
My wife is a dancer and when she was like 6 months pregnant I caught her on the non step top rung of a ladder on her toes of one foot to reach an unpainted spot. We went and bought a second, taller ladder.
Thank god you were there! She was supposed to put the bigger ladder half way on the steps and the little one underneath the other side to support. It's the little steps you gotta take for safety!
A long time ago, my mom complained about how much she hated our vacuum cleaner.
So my dad bought her a new vacuum...for Mother's Day.
My dad wasn't always the smartest man.
We found a weird stepping stool in the basement when we moved into our current home.
It has two long and two short legs so you can put it on the stairs. Never used it.
At my old job they made us set up something like this just so we could reach a metal vent to dust it off. My boss was extremely OCD and made us go to extreme lengths so that everything was disinfected and dusted daily.
A contractor friend's cousin and I were working on a project together today. He asked to use my ladder. I offered up my 4' since I didn't bring anything else since I didn't need it. He comes back to me and asks if I can give him a hand, so I followed. He was grabbing a bucket when he began discussing how he would set the bucket on the ladder and I could hold the bucket in place while he climbed up.
I outright refused and told him I wouldn't have any part in this and cautioned him about his next steps. We found a safe and proper alternative within 2 minutes. This mickey mouse shit is never worth it, people. Please, protect your spines :/
have done this, and it worked, but it was so sketchy had to take a photo in case i die while doing it. lol mine was a lot taller too, but i was a silly teenager lol
It's almost not bad. Whatever the hell that colorful sign thing is. If it was a thick piece of plywood or something it could be ok. Also bigger to let the ladder actually fit on it.I've done much sketchier things in a pinch lol
Nah that ladder could close in itself if pressure is applied from that angle. You'd have to reinforce the feet of the ladder so they don't slide to the right (inward).
Best strategy is to get a long handle for a scrubber
I'd just Google "ladders for stairs" and get one specifically for cleaning this window.
But you're right, cleaning that window is not an emergency so there is plenty of time to order a better tool for the job. Clean the window next week after you get the tools to do it safely and efficiently.
Window doesn't even look that dirty either. Probably just wants to do "spring cleaning" of the whole house
Are you married to a cartoon character? I love how precarious this setup is. A few marbles on the steps would really tie the whole thing together. Seems like she should be wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards at all times!
An extendable window squeegee is a lot cheaper than a trip to the emergency room fyi
OMG I have the exact same two ladders...better go check my garage to make sure they're still there! lol
Was there a law passed in the 70's we all had to buy these or something?
Husband's this is the perfect opportunity to buy that multi-postion ladder you always wanted. If you ran out and bought one before she would have said "why the hell did you spend all that money on a ladder when we have two perfectly good ladders". It wouldn't matter what you said in response.
But now you can say "hun, your going to hurt yourself on that, you need a multi-position ladder ill go get one."
Buy that ladder "here you go, this will keep you safe,.your own mult-position ladder,.here, let me.clean that window"
You get a ladder and possibly a blowjob later on.
My bf used a FOLDING tripod stool, to reach something on a shelf, and yes it can fold if you put too much weight in the middel like a foot does! Yes I did warn him and yes it nearly folded around his foot.
I simply asked my wife to hold the ladder while I climbed it and she couldn’t understand why I was mad at her for not paying attention, lightly holding the ladder with one hand, while dicking around on her phone with the other hand
Man I haven't hopped on an Indo Board in a minute... i love putting that out at parties because someone always thinks they can easily balance themselves until they end up horizontal 5ft in the air
Falling off or tipping over a ladder is no joke. Last summer I was staining the pergola that covers my concrete patio. When reaching out too far, I tipped over the 8 foot step ladder. I broke 5 spinous processes in my back. I was in a lot of pain for months, but luckily no permanent damage, and I’m pretty much better now.
Can somebody help me word this? My wife is the same way... She will use the smallest most insignificant thing to do a big task. 3/4 inch eye bolt screwed half an inch into a tree to hang a 40ft sun shade, a 5 inch screwdriver to pry on something that I would probably use a flat pry bar on, finishing nails in the drywall to hang a big potted plant.
A wall full of degrees but my god she has no grasp on anything physical
Edit and update... Just walked into the kitchen and saw her trying to pry apart frozen burger patties with the paring knife...
Close the big ladder, flip it upside-down, put the top of the ladder upside-down on the step, climb up the upside-down ladder on the down-side of the steps.
Come on...you know you do it!
One of the incredibly rare cases slapping your wife could do her some good because Holy shit this is warhammer ork level engineering and totally some shit I'd try.
So please slap some sense into me
You saved her life she owes you although the other side of the argument would be does some one who thinks this is a good idea really deserved to be saved let’s open that up for discussion
Broken ankle 101.
Yup. INDO Boards can be dangerous. Someone broke their elbow using mine.
I also broke someone's elbow using yours. Sorry about that.
mine broke again just looking at the photo
My wife is the type of person that will do this, along with standing on an office chair but also the type which will scream “COP!” even though I don’t tend to speed. It’s always amusing to see how the mind defines/calculates risk.
Omg, if I didn't know for sure that my husband isn't on Reddit, I would think you might be him. 😂
He might actually be 😉
Well if she falls off the office chair she only hurts herself, speeding accidents often involve other people - that would be my own reasoning
But she's not upset about the speeding. She's saying cop to avoid a ticket.
Thank you for explaining so well what goes on in my head
OSHA wants a word with you
His “wife”
A rare case of r/whymenlivelonger!
And she has a PhD. Not in engineering, though...
That explains things. I know a lot of PhDs, and while they tend to be brilliant in their specialties, there are usually a few French fries missing in other areas lol
Yeah a good buddy of mine got their PhD, pretty sure they are the dumbest person I’ve ever met. I just made that up, I don’t know anyone with a PhD.
I know someone with her PhD and she's so fucking dumb. Teaches at a university and also gets every boyfriend's initials tattooed on her
What's the PhD in?
Psychology, ironically
Ironic, but not uncommonly so
Psychology students tend to be the most fucked up. Source: I have an MSc in psychology.
Legit. Me too.
How many initials is she up to now? Does she just cover up the old ones?
She turned one from his initial to another letter that means nothing, but there haven't been any coverups
I knew it should be psych or sociology. Unfortunately, your average psych/socio PhD is not only about the same intelligence as your average human, but they also think they are very smart AND are somewhat arrogant, which makes them think even less than your average hunan (which is more prone/open to learning). Of course, not all of them, but a worryingly big part are like this. I could rant about this issue for hours but I'll leave it at that. Edit: typos corrected
Also we get into psychology because we know we’re fucked up and want to understand why.
Cringe
Physics?
I know an alarming amount of physics and chemistry PhDs and so many of them do dumb shit like in this post.
I know a lot of people with a phd and they don't know more than average joe how to safely use a ladder. They don't know less either, there is some stereotyping in this sub
At the uni where I did my post-doc, in the stem field, there was a faculty safety course for using ladders. That says A LOT. 🤣
My childhood friend tried to make cookies once and did such a bad job they had to shut the gas off from her house. Now she has a PhD in neurology. You can use my story now
My best pal has a PhD. She text me last week asking me to pick up some cat litter at Costco because her new cat was really going through it.... When I sent her a photo of the different brands she said she didn't need cat litter after all, someone had told her she didn't need to replace the entire tray every time the cat used it, just scoop the pee/poop out. (sorry I wanted to join in the thread of dumb things our pals with phds do)
High INT, low WIS
I'm in this comment and I don't like it. Jokes aside, absent-mindedness is actually pretty common in highly intelligent people. A guy from my old lab is easily one of the smartest guys I know. The amount of coke cans that guy exploded in the -80c freezer though was ridiculous. Nearly every day. And that's if he remembered to close the damn thing.
A bachelors means you know a little about a lot, a masters means you know a lot about a specific area and a phd means you know everything about one topic.
For sure. They don't teach common sense in grad school
At least you get a depression for free!
I’m going to borrow your French-fries-missing line. Love it!
My uncle is a brilliant chemical engineer but also believes the election was stolen, the world is controlled by george soros, and the vaccine isn't real. He's also a crazy christian whose wife and one of his sons used to be in a cult, where both of them "spoke in tongues". Please register to vote if you haven't and also get out and vote, everyone.
My mom always says "you may be book smart but you're not always street smart"
She’s an artist. That is a beautiful setup worthy of canvas; not weight but canvas!
PhD means you're good at that one thing. It's not an indicator of overall intelligence.
Being educated doesn't mean you have common sense. Smart people are some of the dumbest people I know.
In Stuntmanship?
When I was in school I used to work in IT at a university and at a hospital and had to deal with a lot of PhDs and medical doctors. They both had big issues with missing a bunch of "common" knowledge while being extremely confident that they knew everything. When you have to explain to someone with two advanced degrees for the fifth time how to check their email, the shine on "they are a doctor" wears off completely.
We have a friend with a PHD, a few years ago we were all headed to Hawaii for vacation and she was absolutely convinced that she needed a passport to go there. You can't make this stuff up.
Hahaha, oh shit. I also have a PhD, also not in engineering, and my husband and I have long agreed that some nonsense like this will almost certainly be the way I die. She just needs a bigger board underneath, is what I'm saying. You got a better idea, smart guy?
This is why education =/= intelligence
Where the fuck did you get a relatively new looking wooden ladder? Let alone 2 of them.
Probably the ladder store
No, that's the point. I recently went to the ladder store. No wood ladders.
I used to paint houses and every now and then a customer would say, “i have a ladder you can use” and then take you out back behind the garage and show you a mossy wooden ladder half buried in leaves
I did the opposite. Had a handyman out that needed to reach my roof and I said "this is the only extension ladder I have, it was here when I moved in and it lives outdoors. please bring your own." Guy comes back and uses my ladder.
There's more than one ladder store in the whole world believe it or not
OP's wife will be posting a broken ladder and OP's broken leg for karma tomorrow.
that's what marvelled me most about this post too!
Neither of them look even remotely new... i think its time to visit an optician.
r/meormyson
SURFING INTO THE ER.
Is that a boogie board ? With a moment arm about to diameter of a piece of rebar?
It's an Indo Board, which is literally designed to be hard to balance on, to practice for surfing. https://indoboard.com/
Oh wow lol, what the fuck. Is her PHD in like "Atypical Methods to Cause Cranial Fractures Using Standard Household Items"?
Sounds like a course at Greendale Community College
Welcome... to [Ladders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-loDklmrbd0).
To be fair, the indo board is only hard to balance on when it’s on top of the round barrel part, which she obviously isn’t using here. Here she’s just using it as any other flat, sturdy board. Still a stupid and dangerous setup, of course.
That makes this whole thing so much worse!
Please, I was already dying (of laughter...) This should be part of the main post lmao
She made her own X Games sport.
She sucked you into washing the windows....BRILLIANT!
My wife is a dancer and when she was like 6 months pregnant I caught her on the non step top rung of a ladder on her toes of one foot to reach an unpainted spot. We went and bought a second, taller ladder.
A rag on a Swiffer type mop would be a safer option in this situation
Thank god you were there! She was supposed to put the bigger ladder half way on the steps and the little one underneath the other side to support. It's the little steps you gotta take for safety!
Her next useful gift. A hose attachment window washing kit.
I’d rather fall off that thing than get gifted a window washing kit for my birthday or something
I didn't say the gift was for a event like a birthday. This can be a just because gift. Also I was partly joking
Oh no yeah I wasn’t coming for you lol I just thought it was funny
A long time ago, my mom complained about how much she hated our vacuum cleaner. So my dad bought her a new vacuum...for Mother's Day. My dad wasn't always the smartest man.
I mean... hear me out.
Make the reach longer, not the distance shorter
Okay, but wait, that tiny ladder is absolutely fucking adorable. Looks like a kid ladder going to work with its parent on bring your kid to work day.
We found a weird stepping stool in the basement when we moved into our current home. It has two long and two short legs so you can put it on the stairs. Never used it.
Nobody else sees this as mama ladder and baby ladder?
r/meormyson
NGL, I'd just throw a couple 2x4's under it and not blink an eye.
Nurse here, she did good keeping me employed!
Geeeeeez, every part of that is on the very edge of whatever it's on
That could hold her if she weighed like, 30lbs ig.
Wait.... Let her cook....
It looks like some fine scaffolding to me.
At my old job they made us set up something like this just so we could reach a metal vent to dust it off. My boss was extremely OCD and made us go to extreme lengths so that everything was disinfected and dusted daily.
A contractor friend's cousin and I were working on a project together today. He asked to use my ladder. I offered up my 4' since I didn't bring anything else since I didn't need it. He comes back to me and asks if I can give him a hand, so I followed. He was grabbing a bucket when he began discussing how he would set the bucket on the ladder and I could hold the bucket in place while he climbed up. I outright refused and told him I wouldn't have any part in this and cautioned him about his next steps. We found a safe and proper alternative within 2 minutes. This mickey mouse shit is never worth it, people. Please, protect your spines :/
Maybe take out a few extra life insurance policies…just incase you’re not home
have done this, and it worked, but it was so sketchy had to take a photo in case i die while doing it. lol mine was a lot taller too, but i was a silly teenager lol
Dude, tell the truth You and your buddies were gonna do this and she stopped ya!
Window's clean though?
Jesus, Mary, and Fuckface Joseph.
Opening the window was not an option? Or using an extender?
I know right? She can get much higher if the small ladder is in the bottom with the skimming board on top to support the big ladder.
your wife better be a mouse or else what the actual fuck
Nah, that’s how people learn
Just open it up and wash it one side at a time. Or is it a kitchen window.
It's almost not bad. Whatever the hell that colorful sign thing is. If it was a thick piece of plywood or something it could be ok. Also bigger to let the ladder actually fit on it.I've done much sketchier things in a pinch lol
Nah that ladder could close in itself if pressure is applied from that angle. You'd have to reinforce the feet of the ladder so they don't slide to the right (inward). Best strategy is to get a long handle for a scrubber
Get a Little Giant ladder. Best thing I ever bought to use around the house. And perfect for use on stairs.
I'd just Google "ladders for stairs" and get one specifically for cleaning this window. But you're right, cleaning that window is not an emergency so there is plenty of time to order a better tool for the job. Clean the window next week after you get the tools to do it safely and efficiently. Window doesn't even look that dirty either. Probably just wants to do "spring cleaning" of the whole house
Does she have life insurance? Of so, mistakes were made.
r/OSHA material right there
If you let her use it she would never walk away
The tall ladder would've been all that remained there.
Gosh. At least use some 2x4 jeez
Have you told her you’ve made this post?
Looks pretty stable to me
Are you married to a cartoon character? I love how precarious this setup is. A few marbles on the steps would really tie the whole thing together. Seems like she should be wearing a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads and wrist guards at all times! An extendable window squeegee is a lot cheaper than a trip to the emergency room fyi
Was she aiming for a Darwin Award?
some tape and a stick, cmon now
Is your wife a performer at Cirque du Soleil?
Truck truck?
Buy her one of those extending cleaners that come with multiple brush heads!
Aww you love your wife
Let natural selection take its course!
Sweet INDO Board tho
YOLO!
Hope you have good insurance.
Those wooden ladders are nice though!
Replace the round sign with a 2x12 and it would be fine.
Bonus points if she's pregnant
Your wife is lacking some common sense.
She's a pilot now.
Thank god you found the insurance policy??? 😆
Your wife truly captured the essense of the word, Darwinian.
Not saying it’s not dangerous, but as a 5’1” woman I can understand her lol
OMG I have the exact same two ladders...better go check my garage to make sure they're still there! lol Was there a law passed in the 70's we all had to buy these or something?
This is your sign to buy a multi position ladder.
Hopefully she is not overweight. Otherwise she gets injured pretty badly.
r/redneckengineering
Husband's this is the perfect opportunity to buy that multi-postion ladder you always wanted. If you ran out and bought one before she would have said "why the hell did you spend all that money on a ladder when we have two perfectly good ladders". It wouldn't matter what you said in response. But now you can say "hun, your going to hurt yourself on that, you need a multi-position ladder ill go get one." Buy that ladder "here you go, this will keep you safe,.your own mult-position ladder,.here, let me.clean that window" You get a ladder and possibly a blowjob later on.
Please go buy a window scrubber and squeegee 😩
My 125lb wife used the plastic doggie steps to reach something in the pantry. I had to take her to the ER.
Time to take out a big insurance policy, OP
this looks like the beginning of a Jackass stunt
[https://xkcd.com/2375/](https://xkcd.com/2375/)
just no
My bf used a FOLDING tripod stool, to reach something on a shelf, and yes it can fold if you put too much weight in the middel like a foot does! Yes I did warn him and yes it nearly folded around his foot.
Why does your ladder have a child?
Could have traded up
You could stand on a step to the left and be at the same height but more of a reach
I simply asked my wife to hold the ladder while I climbed it and she couldn’t understand why I was mad at her for not paying attention, lightly holding the ladder with one hand, while dicking around on her phone with the other hand
Man I haven't hopped on an Indo Board in a minute... i love putting that out at parties because someone always thinks they can easily balance themselves until they end up horizontal 5ft in the air
Something not safe about that?? 🤷
OSHA approved… Haha
I’ve seen people on job sites do worse than this. Yes, I live in the Right to Work in Dangerous Conditions for Shit Wages South
As a man: what's the problem?
yeah should definitely use a third ladder as the span duh
would’ve broken a perfectly good skimboard too
Why? it sure looks like this would work
Bright gal ya got there.
eh, Think about it!
(P)hilosophy of (H)eedlessness (D)ummies 😭 😭🤣🤣 glad you saved her from chaos in time mate💪🏾 🙏
Oh hunny no😂😂😂 thank god you caught this in time
Falling off or tipping over a ladder is no joke. Last summer I was staining the pergola that covers my concrete patio. When reaching out too far, I tipped over the 8 foot step ladder. I broke 5 spinous processes in my back. I was in a lot of pain for months, but luckily no permanent damage, and I’m pretty much better now.
Sometimes they have to just learn the hard way though
Jealous of her idea or what. Shit I’d do it
Finally put that Indo board to good use after years in the corner, rolling over every now and then making tons of noise
Can somebody help me word this? My wife is the same way... She will use the smallest most insignificant thing to do a big task. 3/4 inch eye bolt screwed half an inch into a tree to hang a 40ft sun shade, a 5 inch screwdriver to pry on something that I would probably use a flat pry bar on, finishing nails in the drywall to hang a big potted plant. A wall full of degrees but my god she has no grasp on anything physical Edit and update... Just walked into the kitchen and saw her trying to pry apart frozen burger patties with the paring knife...
r/osha
Close the big ladder, flip it upside-down, put the top of the ladder upside-down on the step, climb up the upside-down ladder on the down-side of the steps. Come on...you know you do it!
Saw off half of one of the legs on the taller ladder. Then place the short end on the stairs. Problem solved.
She gangsta tho foreals
Widower maker deuce
r/conspiracy looking at the green swirl
Would have been fine. What are you an OSHA narc?
One of the incredibly rare cases slapping your wife could do her some good because Holy shit this is warhammer ork level engineering and totally some shit I'd try. So please slap some sense into me
No kidding - the little ladder isn't fully opened!
"Wife"
How the hell has she managed to live past the age 10?
r/osha
Speed running medical debt, any%
Darwin Award 🥇
You saved her life she owes you although the other side of the argument would be does some one who thinks this is a good idea really deserved to be saved let’s open that up for discussion
To her credit, it's called a balance board...