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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 9:41am  
Before we could drive, how we got around in the winter. We used to call it bumper hopping.
 
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beadweaver Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:01am  
Before we could drive, how we got around in the winter. We used to call it bumper hopping.
 
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@FoFa:
 
Those were the good old days.
The days before everything including breathing would kill us. Lol
My dh and I often talk and try some of the things we did as kids.
Gotta keep kickin the can.
The only bones I've ever broken (and continue to break) are my toes. In 55 years I've never had a cast.
HAHAHAHA the shopping cart commercial came on.
Sorry I digress
The only thing I really miss about snow is.....
The CASH. Easy 200 a day doing walks and drives. Not bad for a 10 yr old.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:11am  
We had an old pair of water skies off a boat that hadn't seen the water in 20 years and we'd pull each other down the ice-packed road behind the snowmobile.  The trick was to hold on long enough to get going really fast but let go before your pal decided to cut into the ditch and across the field pulling you with him.Memories aside, I don't miss the snow even for a minute and have absolutely no desire to live where it snows annually.  4951
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:23am  
We had an old pair of water skies off a boat that hadn't seen the water in 20 years and we'd pull each other down the ice-packed road behind the snowmobile.
 
@shodan66: We used our motorcycles to do the same thing. Snow mobiles just were not that big in Indiana compared to like Michigan where I grew up before high school.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:29am  
@shodan66:
 
We used our motorcycles to do the same thing. Snow mobiles just were not that big in Indiana compared to like Michigan where I grew up before high school.
 
@FoFa: From October to March we had an area of the school parking lot that was just for snowmobiles.  We'd only have a snow day if we had a proper blizzard, otherwise you were just expected to pony up and get there.I know our Houston summers can be trying, but I do not miss Rhodes/Pinconning Michigan for a minute.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:31am  
We had two hills that were ripe for sledding beside the one behind the house.
We used my brother's trailer from his Tonka truck 18 wheeler. We flipped it over and held onto the wheels. Man did that tin can soar.
 
The other was on the way to school. It was a steep sob and the only way unless you went almost 1/2 mile around. So come winter we would sit on our books as the lookout at the bottom stopped cars from crossing. Those books took a beating.
 
That was back in the day when you got new books on the first day and they were yours to keep. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 28, '15 10:39am  
The way cops are now days you would be arrested. 4951
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