That day the squirrel won and I lost my lunch

Last Tuesday I was up in a 60 foot oak in Springfield, cutting a dead limb, when a squirrel launched off the branch right into my open thermos. Coffee went everywhere, down my shirt, into my glove, and the little jerk just sat there on the next limb staring at me like I owed him rent. I had to come down early because my hands were too sticky to trust the grip. The homeowner watched the whole thing from her porch and just said "at least it wasn't the saw." Three hours later I found a peanut in my boot, still no clue how that got there. Has anyone else had a critter sabotage their gear mid-climb, or is my luck just special?

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cooper.mark1mo ago

Gotta feel for you, man, that squirrel definitely won round one... and the peanut in the boot is just the icing on the cake of a bad day.