Words to Live By

Best advice ever printed in The Troy Record, courtesy of Dr. Maxwell Alley, Orthopedic Surgeon:
     1)  Never ride a motorcycle.  Ever.
     2)  If you are not a roofer, don't go on the roof.
     3)  If you are not a lumberjack, don't cut down trees.
One time, when I was at an orthopedist's office with my child, the doctor told me that his 19-year-old son wanted a motorcycle, and that he said to his  son before he'd buy him a motorcycle he'd break his legs himself.  Last summer,  Dave had to schedule his appointments at a Saratoga orthopedist around the biker weekend in Lake George.  The doctor said all the area orthopedists would be on call in the emergency rooms that week.  It appears it's an annual orthopedic event.
  And as to amateur or do it yourself roofers and tree cutters, we hear and read about their unfortunate disasters.