I remember discovering the truth about sledding and skating about this age…when you live in the totally flat area of the Midwest, there are no hills to fly down. And when your only available ice is about an inch and a half covering a concrete tennis court, you give up on the idea of ice skating pretty quickly. All those sixties TV Christmas special memes died pretty fast.
A Canadian kid here, but one from about the flattest place in the country (when the dog ran away from home you could still see him three days later; at least that’s the joke around here). Those of us who learned to skate , which is to say those who didn’t have “weak ankles” like me" learned to skate on outdoor rinks in the school yards with the boards put up by the fathers before the first snowfall and dutifully flooded by the janitor once it stayed freezing. The only natural body of water to skate on would be a river than never froze over from bank to bank and was too rough a surface to skate on anyway. To us, skating on a frozen pond or lake was unheard of. We skill produced a lot of great hockey players.
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
Manual labor.
knight1192a about 9 years ago
Went from a sleigh ride to a sled ride. Poor Shermy.
orinoco womble about 9 years ago
I remember discovering the truth about sledding and skating about this age…when you live in the totally flat area of the Midwest, there are no hills to fly down. And when your only available ice is about an inch and a half covering a concrete tennis court, you give up on the idea of ice skating pretty quickly. All those sixties TV Christmas special memes died pretty fast.
ladamson1918 about 9 years ago
The day Sherman found out about adult life.
Darryl Heine about 9 years ago
It isn’t the Christmas season for the Sleigh Ride song for now…
Godfreydaniel about 9 years ago
I wonder if my gf is taking lessons from Patty…….
bmckee about 9 years ago
A Canadian kid here, but one from about the flattest place in the country (when the dog ran away from home you could still see him three days later; at least that’s the joke around here). Those of us who learned to skate , which is to say those who didn’t have “weak ankles” like me" learned to skate on outdoor rinks in the school yards with the boards put up by the fathers before the first snowfall and dutifully flooded by the janitor once it stayed freezing. The only natural body of water to skate on would be a river than never froze over from bank to bank and was too rough a surface to skate on anyway. To us, skating on a frozen pond or lake was unheard of. We skill produced a lot of great hockey players.