Jacob's Ladder (Part 1)

As you well saw in my previous post, Jacob a good friend of mine, has an innate nack for getting himself into odd predictaments. He's a curious man to say to least in both his personality and his interests. As you may have thought from the title of this particular ranting it concerns his wooden ladder. Well, this is where Jacob's odd interests come into the story. You see ol Jacob has a wandering mind always thinking of ways to make things "better" for the rest of the Ordnung. This particular day after a hot afternoon working on the barn Jacob had an idea that he said came from something he saw an English using on his own home. This particular ladder that he'd seen would bend in the center to let the person make an "A" style ladder instead of the regular straight ladder that we normally use. Well, this is indeed a grand idea in the overall view of things but ol Jacob seemed to have missed something very vital in the construction of this new "bending ladder" idea that he had... a locking cross bar. You see our particular Ordnung has an odd view of modern things. We can look at them, take rides in vehicles, and even talk on cell phones sometimes. At the same time though there are things we cannot buy and this particular type of ladder is one of them. So, what does Jacob do you ask? He went down to the local True Value Store and bought himself two brand new straight wooden ladders, two brass door hinges, and the recently Council approved roll of duct tape. With that Jacob had everything he needed for this new and "improved" ladder.