I am giving the video in the link below a merit award, but only as a "clip," and not as an entire video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-xFXON0BU at 50 seconds, the cameraman has to get out of the way, and so for about 30 seconds the clip is not watchable, but then the caver being filmed appears to bypass the awkward restriction. I have been in several wet squeezes. Klar's Ranch Salamander Cave ( # 1 or # 2 ?? ) Eriks River Cave in Indiana, and Lamplighter's Cave in Indiana. I have been stuck momentarily in some dry squeezes The One-Legged-Man Passage in Airman's ( long legs ), and The Corkscrew in Midnight Cave in Carta Valley ( only because I was fat ) I think any other tight spots that I encountered ( in the late 80's ) where only because I was 6 feet tall and had broad shoulders and was over-weight. D.L. I have a question for you. Imagine yourself as self-employed and all alone operating some sort of business - as your only source of income ( no other money coming in ). How much money, would you realistically expect to profit per day after subtracting expenses and taxes ? I don't see how anybody can do it. I worked my tail off today, and while I may eventually someday get paid $ 100 for that work, I had $ 50 in gas expenses, and overhead related to an office, fax machine, internet, cell-phone, car repairs, taxes. ( One can write off just about everything though, so when it is all said and done, there is not enough taxable income to even pay for social security ) But you got to figure in the dead-days, or in my case dead-weeks. I do pay my fair share of taxes, as I eat out 14 meals per week, and stay in motels, and buy lots and lots of gas. For the past 21 years, about 10 % of my income probably went to sales taxes.
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