When I was a kid my babysitter put me, never on a roof before, up there to clean the gutter. Put the ladder away while I was doing it to save time. Told me I had to jump. What do babysitters do these days I wonder.
true story with some others, both boring and exciting, more about "expressions they used to use"
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