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mnhtnbb

(31,384 posts) Fri Jul 17, 2020, 10:13 AM Jul 2020

If you are afraid of heights, this job is not for you

Our apartment building is getting windows washed and the guys are hangings from ropes. No platform. Here's a guy washing my living room window...on the 17th floor.

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If you are afraid of heights, this job is not for you (Original Post) mnhtnbb Jul 2020 OP

Yikes!👀 dewsgirl Jul 2020 #1

even looking at it gives makes me dizzy.. samnsara Jul 2020 #2

I sit out on my balcony quite a bit. Doesn't bother me. mnhtnbb Jul 2020 #3

No rope keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #4

And you have to finish your set before the helicopter gets back. /nt localroger Jul 2020 #5

1768 feet. No rope. My hands and feet get clammy just watching. keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #6

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

1. Yikes!👀

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 10:16 AM

Jul 2020

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

2. even looking at it gives makes me dizzy..

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 10:24 AM

Jul 2020

..how can someone NOT be frightened of heights?

mnhtnbb

(31,384 posts)

3. I sit out on my balcony quite a bit. Doesn't bother me.

Reply to samnsara (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 10:43 AM

Jul 2020

But hanging from a rope? No thanks!

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)

4. No rope

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:05 AM

Jul 2020

localroger

(3,626 posts)

5. And you have to finish your set before the helicopter gets back. /nt

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #4)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:09 AM

Jul 2020

keithbvadu2

(36,788 posts)

6. 1768 feet. No rope. My hands and feet get clammy just watching.

Reply to mnhtnbb (Original post)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:25 AM

Jul 2020

1768 feet. No rope. My hands and feet get clammy just watching.

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