B-93 Morning Show: Getting Hurt Setting Up Decorations

We learned that 160 people get hurt a DAY setting up Christmas decortations. Aly and Mike share their stories and listeners call in with theirs! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety three point seven B ninety three. This definitely not
something that you should be proud of, and I am not.
I saw online that one hundred and sixty people a
day are injured decorating for the holidays right now?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Oh really yes?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Oh, like, oh exact cupis al things so like Christmas
tree putting up to Christmas lights.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Primarily it's from falls off of ladders, which is exactly
what happened to me. That wasn't even outside. You know
how they talk about like having the right tools for
the right job.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
I have one.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Ladder one yeah, and it's about two feet tall. It's
a step ladder.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh okay, yeah yeah, but it's not like.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
A nice, like sturdy one like this is an old
wooden two or three.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Step ladder, like the ones that have been passed down
for generation to generation.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, yeah, you can picture it in your head.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's not level, it's kind of rickety. But like I
get by, I.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Get by because you only ever really need to get
up just a little bit higher, like hey, you're not yeah,
you're not, you know, putting up electric or you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Exactly, Yeah, And I didn't even put up any lights
outside this year because it's the only ladder I have,
and it like it got so snowy and snow and
so icy so fast that I was like, I'm not
messing with that. I know my limits. The outside of
the house is just gonna have to take the hit
this year. But I do like a I have like

(01:22):
a like a tension rod that I put in a
doorway and wrap like greenery around it. Okay, that separates
my living room in my dining room, and the two
step ladder is fine for it.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
My ceilings are not very tall. It's no big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
The only hitch in the gideo with that is that
there is like half a step down into my living
room for my dining room, and I got the ladder
just a little bit too close to that half step.
Oh jeez, And I took a tumble. I took a tumble.
It was nothing crazy, nothing serious. I'm not injured aside

(01:57):
from my ego.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Right because that that kind of although were you fall
and you just lay there and you go, did I
just fall?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
That fall? Super hard?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
So I like kind of caught myself. Oh okay, it
definitely wasn't graceful. Yeah, but I didn't like fall and
hit my head or anything. I had to like jump
off the ladder. But it's one of those things. After
it happens, and I live by myself and like no
one was around when I was doing this, I was like,
that could have been bad. That could have been the
one where that's the one I'm like unresponsive for a

(02:25):
couple days and my mom and my sisters are looking
on the find my friends, like why is she not
responding to our text messages?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
She hasn't moved from that one spot.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Send the crew up there, like knock on the door.
So I want to know, how'd you get hurt? Decorating
for the holidays?

Speaker 5 (02:40):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Mine is a is it out door? I would pay?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It does cost a little bit of money to have
people put up your lights in your neighborhood, like at
your house. Yeah, but I think one of these days
that's what I would be like I made it is
when I pay somebody to do that because they look beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yeah, but it was it was that.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I have one ladder too, but it's a tall ladder,
but it's it's not super tall and it's not super short.
It's like that mid I don't know if it's like
eight foot or something.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
We're playing the Goldilocks of ladder, Yeah yeah, or it's not.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, it's not too it's not big enough to like
get high up on things. I still have to reach
high to put up Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
So I'm outside and I got these two bushes on
the side of my house and I'm trying to reach
to like put up the outdoor lights.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now this was last year because I won't do the
outdoor lights anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I reached too far and I don't have somebody
holding the ladder, which you're supposed to all these things
you're supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
But I'm like, oh, I could do it.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And I'm convinced they don't make those clips well enough
to like just push them in, like you're either snapping
them or anyways.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Think breaks.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
I fall into the bush and I'm just laying there
in the bush like half legs, and I have like
a like I know why neighbors are watching.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I know. Yeah, just defeated.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
How'd you get hurt decorating for the holidays? Six one,
six two four to two ninety three ninety three. How'd
you hurt yourself decorating for the holidays six on six
two four to two ninety three ninety three. Right now,
I think Dave out of Holland takes it.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Why would he do?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
He said he threw out his shoulder untangling lights. I
swear we're fine last year. I don't know how you
throw out your shoulder untangling the lights.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
That sounds like a frustration move. And I get that
because he just said, I don't know how they're tangled.
They weren't tangled when I put them away, right, But
the second you pull any direction on those, for some reason,
they instantly tie like a knot, and they're all of
a sudden tight. And that sounds like he went stupid.
He just ripped it and then pulled out.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
His shoulder B ninety three. I'm Ali Mack and I'm Mike.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
About one hundred and sixty people a day right now
injuring themselves decorating for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Whoops.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I am one of those. I have been one of
those fell off of small ladder. Everyone's fine. We can
laugh about it now.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
But it was one of those moments where you look
back and you think, yeah, what did you think was
to happen?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
What did you think was gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
I was able to like catch myself, So the only
thing that's injured is, you know, my ego a little bit.
But then you hit, you get to the point where
you're like, you know what, the house is decorated enough,
we're just gonna call it, call it.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
A day on that.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah, once you're on the ground looking up and everything,
you're like, oh, this looks good. Yeah, I think we're good.
I think I think.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
We'll we'll stop right here. How'd you hurt yourself decorating
for the holidays? Six one, six, two, four, two ninety
three ninety three? Good morning, be ninety three? Who's this
and where are you from?

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Hi? My name is Brianna from Paycakes, Brianna?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
How'd you hurt yourself?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
It wasn't me, It was my mom.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Oh no.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
About a month ago, beginning of November, she decided to
hang your Christmas lights up by herself, and she was
on like the last little bit of it and fell
ninety and shattered her leg.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Holy cow, oh no, gosh.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
She laid on the ground for about forty five minutes
before her watch finally called me. It wouldn't call nine
one one, So that involved couple day, hospitals say up
Butterworth and uh emergency thirdree and but be about eight

(06:22):
months of healing.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh man, Well, hopefully she can just kind of relax
and be waited on the next couple of weeks, you know.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, yeah, Canon foot.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Up man ninety feet. Well, I'm glad her watch was
able to call you at least.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Yeah, I mean it took forty five minutes for at
least it did something.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
I bet she uses those those light companies now to
set up her lights high. I bet she's not messing
with that anymore.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yep, yep, that's exactly what she said.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Thanks for the call this morning, Brienna. Send your mom
some get well wishes from us. How'd you hurt yourself
decorate for the holidays? Six one, six two four to
two ninety three ninety three I got a note from
Nicole and Caledonia. She said, would you believe I pulled
a muscle reaching behind the couch to plug in the tree?
Turns out I'm not twenty five anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
All these people pulling muscles doing very simple.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Things, I know, but like that's that's what happens.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's never it's never something like super it's always a
dumb one. Yeah, Mark in Granville, this one sounds really ouchy.
He said he was barefoot and they have a real
tree and he stepped on a pine needle.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh, those do hurt and it got stuck in his foot.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I didn't even know that was possible.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I didn't either. Ooh, but yeah, those do hurt to
step on when they get dry.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, they do get kind of pokey and like, depending
on what kind of tree you have, I could see
that being hurdy six.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
One six two four to two ninety three ninety three?
How'd you hurt yourself decorating for Christmas? Good morning? Be
ninety three? Who's this? And where are you from?

Speaker 6 (07:56):
I'm pretty from dark?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
How'd you hurt yourself decorating for the hollow?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
I was tearing the lights up to the yard. Haven't
even started the decorating part yet, and I stepped into
a hole in the yard that I didn't know was
there and twisted my ankle fell down and I ended
up straining my ankle and possibly tearing something in my ankle.

(08:21):
I'd have to have an MRI done.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh no, now, Brittany, there was an alcohol involved, was there? No?

Speaker 4 (08:28):
Okay, all right,