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i hate winter!!

2003-02-27 - 5:54 p.m.

its official...i hate winter with the burning passion of 10,000 suns...i did not feel this way as a kid...as a kid i LOVED winter cuz it snowed lots and we got to stay home from school and go sledding and have snowball fightsand make giant snow sculptures such as a giant toilet in the front yard..but now as an single parent..winter sucks ass...it might not be SO bad if i didnt have a job that required me to work in all sorts of weather conditions...so now if it snows i gotta do the "brian shuffle...shuffle brian to my parents usually...i know they dont mind but it still grates on my nerves to ask them so much...i cant wait for sprng and summer when school is never closed..or out for the summer...its so much easier then

but back to my childhood winters...our winters were back before the time of PS2, X-box, gamecube, pokemon and other electronic entertainers..we had SLEDS and imaginations and a major lack of common sense...i remember we had two hills that we went sledding on..one was "suicide run" and the other was just barton street...it too could have been suicide run tho...

suicide run was actually a long clearing in the woods down a steep bumpy hill which led to the citys football field..the field was surrounded by a chainlink fence and it had a hole in it about 4-5 feet across where our hill was...anywhere between 3-10 of us would go flyin down the hill to see who would make it to the hole first...would you back off and come in second and avoid the fence..or go for broke and try to win at the risk of bouncing yer tiny body off the fence?? oh the MEMORIES..i swear if MY kid did what we did..id have a freakin stroke...wait, i lie..id be right there with him pointin out the best line to take..hahahaha..speakin of which jayel told me about a killer hill near where she lives...if roads r cool by saturday..imma take the lil bean sleddin over there...

barton street was actually more dangerous as it was on a very steep residential street and ended at a T intersection with a fence separating the street from the highway just on the other side...basically we would come flying down and try to stay all the way to the right and make a HARD left turn and graze up against the curb and slow down and then walk all the way back...for the life of me..i cant think why we NEVER had anybody as a look out to let us know if cars were comin...i remember many times flyin into the intersection and seconds later a car would go past and we'd think nothing of it...the one time it sunk in was a time that i was racin my buddy david oarr , wayne and jerry and we were all close and i cant remember how it happened but we all wrecked about 3/4 the way down..they went up onto the sidewalk and hit a fence and i fell off my sled in the street...as i slid to a stop i watched my sled cruise out into the intersection and WHAM!! it got run over by a car...actually it wasnt MY sled..it was davids sisters sled..amy...her mom was glad i was ok and said they could get another sled...WHEW!! i remember people riding doubles and triples...you know, 2 or three people stacked up on one sled and rarely would we make it all the way down..cuz whoever was steering would be weaving all over tryin to throw us off...hahahaha one time david and i fell off and hit his dads car...davids chest hit the front tire and i slid underneath the car till my feet hit somethin...im thinkin the front sway bar or somethin...we had FUN back in the day...IM GOIN SLEDDIN SATURDAY!!!

but yes...i STILL hate winter..during the workweek.. :)

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