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title: "And You Thought You Had a Bad Day"
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excerpt: "Humorous filler piece in the form of a letter to an insurance company elaborating on the cause of a construction worker's accident. The narrator's attempt to lower 500 lbs of materials from a six-story roof using a pulley and barrel results in a cascade of injuries — fractured skull, broken collarbone, fractured ankles, cracked vertebrae…"
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# And You Thought You Had a Bad Day

Humorous filler piece in the form of a letter to an insurance company elaborating on the cause of a construction worker’s accident. The narrator’s attempt to lower 500 lbs of materials from a six-story roof using a pulley and barrel results in a cascade of injuries — fractured skull, broken collarbone, fractured ankles, cracked vertebrae — as he and the barrel repeatedly collide at the third floor.