steppin up

came across an old journal of mine

Lots of boomers

Look, I don't want to sound like a dick here, but there is no ladder out there that would ever impress me.

In my opinion,

A ladder isn't really a ladder until someone climbs it, and when someone does climb it, I am impressed by the climber NOT the ladder.

This is coming from a guy who owns at least six ladders and uses at least one of them almost every day.

I've climbed ladders, PAL. Don't even think for a second I'm the guy who has only seen them on TV and just talk a big game here.

NO

I have climbed countless times.

I'm a big man and I have big ladders.

Oh look at me! I climb! I have no shoes on! I'm a hot man!!

I am NOT like that, OK?

I climb ladders by necessity only.

I use ladders as a tool. I DO NOT romanticize about ladders.

I do not treat them like people or any other living thing.

I do not imagine a "Lady Ladder" where the act of climbing is sexual in nature.

She will not blush or moan as I ascend up and down the rungs all night long.

I don't do that.

I do not use my ladders in any kind of sexual gratification.

They are just tools.

They are not impressed by me and vise versa.

Never have, never will.

There just ladders.