Proper prior planning prevents emergency room visits

Tacitus is (when he's not excavating Hadrian's Wall) an ER doctor.  As you'd imagine, that gives him a story or two.  Like this:

Periodically in the ER I encounter what I call "Wile E. Coyote" injuries.  They take various forms but the basic definition is a man, and its always a man, tries something that seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  But really is not.

For instance.  I saw a good sized fellow who needed to get something out of the rafters of a pole barn.  That's a ways up, so a ladder was needed.  Ok, up the ladder he goes.  But the object is still just a little out of reach.

I'd laugh, but remember all too well my own doctor visits which were immediately preceded by the words "Hey Mom!  Look - no hands!"