Got a re-roofing job to do. So I was sitting on the roof on the garage really getting into laying the shingles when I set the nail gun down between my legs with the nozzle inadvertently pointing toward my crotch. For some reason, the gun fired, ejecting a nail at a very high rate of speed.
When I looked down, my faith grew by leaps and bounds…
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Eep.
Lucky, lucky Yoopers.
Bruce Edwards posts after long hiatus. Yes, I believe in miracles. How’s it going, old pal?
Wouldn’t his luck be neutral? Afterall it did fire off at his crotch in the first place.
Yompers!
Neutral luck…give me a break!
Yes, miracles do happen, and it looks like you were on the bright side of one.
Especially when it appears that nail was destined to pierce one hose or another. Glad to hear from you, and glad you’re OK.
I think I can sum up that shot in one word:
WHEW!!!
Glad that hose was there! Now you have something to think about on nail gun safety, I guess. Now I think I know why my friend, Andy Jennings the unicycling roofer, is usually on his knees (with kneepads) while doing that. 
Photo: Andy at work on our roof, 2007
If nail guns were outlawed only outlaws would have nail guns.
:d 
fify.
Hiya, Greggie! It’s going great!! I’m having the time of my life. Wish I had done this 30 years ago.
Today I’m a bit sore after roofing almost 30 square of shingles between last weekend and this one. But the job’s finally done and I can mark it off the list.
I stay in Bradley, IL through the week and come home to Rochelle on the weekends, so work sort of piles up. About the middle of summer, we’ll all leave 20 years of Rochelle behind and move permanently to Bradley, IL.
Bruce,
How r u spending your evenings?
Billy
I’m taking a class in writing educational research proposals, so I have some homework I can do. Other than that, I call home or watch TV. Sometimes I multitask and do both at once.
Bruce,
I always enjoy reading your stories. I’m so glad this one had a happy ending.
And let me guess, nailguns don’t shoot nails into peoples’ crotches, people shoot nails into their own crotches?
Glad it worked out all right for you Bruce.
And good to see you back on the forum!
Not this time.
Honestly now, how long was it before you could stand up to fetch the camera?
It didn’t get me much at first. I went on with the roof. But later as Mary and I were discussing it, the reality of it all set in…Mary would have had to get me down off the roof.
In all seriousness, I thank God for His protection. In my mind, it was literally nothing short of a miracle.
If it were short of a miracle, would that have been measured in inches or millimeters?
