If you give a Belizean a ladder he will use that ladder in an extremely unsafe way, but somehow always be ok.
My father, the Belizean, is extremely comfortable on ladders and going up steep inclines; my mother says it’s because Belize is basically a steep incline.
He is so comfortable with them that I have seen him many, many times throughout my life walk across ladders that he’s balanced over things as a gangplank and climb up them while they’re tittering on uneven ground.
The amazing thing is that he’s never fallen off of one of these ladders or gotten hurt doing this.
To my knowledge the ladder has only fallen once, while he was not currently on it, trapping him on the roof for a while until my mother found him.
In addition to being extremely comfortable with ladders my father can become easily obsessed with things; like squirrels.
Back in the summer of 2018 he became particularly obsessed with a squirrel that was jumping from the trees onto the roof and running across the roof. The squirrel running across the roof drove him crazy to the point that he decided that it was using a particular branch from the tree next to the house to do this.
So without any help or the right equipment he took his chainsaw and ladder to go up into the tree, climb into the nook where the base of the limb started and cut off the limb. So that he could stop the squirrel from using the limb to jump onto the roof and run across it.
Now I wasn’t there to witness this event, because I was away at college, but my mother was and she sent pictures.
The best part about the whole squirrel on the roof chainsaw incident is that after he did all this the squirrel promptly used a different tree to jump onto the roof so it could run across it.
