The one with broken power lines

In my dream last night, I was told that there were some broken power lines that needed to be fixed. When I arrived at the location of the problem, I could see that there was a very tall metal tower with some loose power lines at the top. There were no ladders or cranes available so they told me to just climb the tower with my bare hands.

I glanced upwards at the tower. There was some metal cabling that criss-crossed between the sides of the tower that at least offered some decent hand and foot holds, but since the cables and connectors were all metal it seemed like a really bad idea under the circumstances.

I'll admit that the thought of free climbing the tower was appealing. I've always liked climbing and this seemed like a fun challenge. However I was pretty sure that the tower was tall enough that I would never make it to the top, particularly since the only exercise I get is swiveling in my office chair. And even if I was able to make it to the top I was nearly certain that I would be electrocuted somewhere along the way.

I expressed my concerns about electrocution to my boss and he said not to worry because he had brought some pool noodles that could be placed over the metal cables. He assured me that the pool noodles would act as insulators. Fortunately for me, while I was second-guessing my boss's plan two of my coworkers arrived.

One of them was wearing a safety harness with a long metal cable that he could attach to the tower while he climbed. It would at least keep him from falling if he lost his grip, but I was still worried about all that metal.

The other coworker was building some sort of pulley system out of ropes and some old logs. It was very elaborate and I thought that it might have worked if he had remembered to secure the end of the ropes to something large enough to act as a counterweight.

As I watched my two coworkers struggling to get to the top of the tower I remember thinking that the situation was not going to end well. On the other hand I was happy that it wasn't me climbing up that tower.

But I couldn't really help them out anyway because my boss had assigned me to take the psychopathic monkey to its new enclosure, feed it lunch, and then get it to carve a magic totem out of a chocolate coin.

Dreamed on 2/12/2020