I was leaning on the white-painted redwood railing on my back deck when I felt it move. Railings are not supposed to move, particularly those that are 12 feet above a concrete walkway. I know exactly how far it is to the bottom because all four of my children saw "the egg test" when they were four or five years old. I suppose you want to know what the egg test was. It was a very simple way to prove to my kids that railings were not good places on which they should play or climb, or lean over with their feet off the ground. We would talk about the rail and I'd explain the dangers, illustrating them by dropping a couple of raw eggs down on to the concrete to watch them splatter.
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