OK, I'll bite. What is OPI? Never heard of it, but then why should I?
Stockings and a garter belt? Oh, be still my heart. If there's anything sexier, I don't have any idea what it might be and I don't know that I could live through it anyway.
Tennyuck - Please. Please. Please stay off them damned ladders. Statistics say that 60% of people who fall from ladders between 15 - 20 feet (about the height of gutters) DIE, they are DRT (dead right there). This is especially true if you fall on a cement driveway. How do I know? The hard way.
In 1998, I fell 25 feet from a ladder and broke all sorts of stuff, including tearing my right pelvis completely away from my spine, crushing my L4 vertebra, breaking my right femur, splitting my right heel bone and having the pieces sticking out of my instep, and breaking my right wrist joint. Bled out half my blood from the broken pelvis. I had four surgeries. I was in the hospital for 8 days, and should have been in there two months, but I just couldn't stand the thought. I missed four months of work. The hospital bill for just the 8 days was $52,000.00. All told, all the bills including the follow-ons and ups with the various surgeons was over $100,000.00. And I am on permanent, life-time narcotic pain control. The accident has changed me in ways I'm still discovering all these years later.
Hire the neighborhood kid to clean the gutters. He's less likely to fall. Make sure you have good insurance to cover him in case he does fall. I was 52 when I fell. If I han't been in good health, or if I had been a couple of years older, I might have lost my foot, or my leg.
On the third followup visit to the orthopedic surgeon when I was discussing how long it would be before I could get back to offshore fishing, he gave me a funny look and said I'd know when and IF I was ready, then he said, "Frank, you're never going to be the same ever again." I went home that day and wept bitterly for hours. That was four years ago, and he was right. I haven't been the same; and all I've been through in all this time I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
DON'T clean those gutters yourself please. And don't get up on a ladder, even a short one, for anything. If you fall off a three foot ladder inside your home and hit your head on the hard floor, it will be your last act in this life.
Sincerely, Your Friend
francois