Nothing 4 Nothing

Where do ideas come from? I was comfortably watching the 49'er game on tv in the family room, when out of nowhere this idea came to my head. So I went out in the front yard equipped with a rake, step stool , regular pruner, and 10 foot pole-like thingy called a ratcheting pruner that has attached to the top a saw blade and rope operated pruner, when you pull down on the cord it cuts off the branch. So...I found this pine tree branch that hangs over the roof of my house, it has been annoying me for a year, but today as I watched the football game I decided it was time to cut it off. I got the offending branch in the pruner pulled down on the cord...and...the wooden pole broke in half! Leaving half dangling attached to the tree about 10 feet above me and half hitting the ground with force. Now I needed to pull the part stuck to the tree down, so I yanked on the cord, 5 feet of pole came flying down, saw first and missed me by an inch!! That was a dumb move... so now I am determine to cut of that blasted branch, I got on the step stool with my rake, raked the branch and pulled it closer to me, I grabbed it with both hands...but now with both hands on the pine branch, how was I suppose to cut it? This was definetley a 2 person job. Therefore I let one hand go, and got the regular pruner with my free hand, and managed to loop it around the branch one handed, not an easy fete...and when it was semi secured around the branch I got my other hand off the rake handle and cut the #@#!branch off! Little pine cones, pine needles and all sorts of dusty junky tree stuff fell all over me and my eyes. In case the neighbors were looking, I cut off 2 or 3 more branches, low ones this time before returning to the football game. Where at the end the 49'ers did not have a good day either, losing in the last minute of play by 2 points...