True stories of Jon the Intergalactic Gladiator's youth

Once when I was younger, I really wanted to climb on the roof of our house. Don't ask me why, that's just something that a kid has to do sometimes. So I got my parents to let me go up to clean out the gutters. I cleared them out and sprayed them down and when I started to climb down, I slipped.

We had a two story house and the fall probably would have either killed me or made my life very miserable, except I got my leg caught in the ladder on the way down. The ladder then caught itself under one railing of the porch and over the railing on the other side. Caught up in the ladder, I hit some bushes, some very itchy bushes I might add, and hung upside down just a couple feet off the ground.

My mom and my sister managed to rush outside and hoist me down from my predicament. I was completely in a daze, but otherwise unhurt. I didn't know what else to do and so I sat on the couch shaking.

My father then started assaulting me with one terrible joke after another. All about ladders and falling off ladders and ladders falling or breaking.

Several minutes into this and I looked at him and said "Hey, I almost became a Ladder Day Saint."

My dad smiled back at me and said "You're all right."