The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28947   Message #364309
Posted By: sophocleese
27-Dec-00 - 09:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: A White Christmas?
Subject: RE: BS: A White Christmas?
More snow in Orillia this morning. Went tobogganing again. I got a little braver and went down the steeper hill. My arm still hurts from landing on it after the jump. The funniest thing going toboganning is watching all the other people. We're at the golf course and there are always a fair number of people. There is a sort of useful convention of going up on one side of the slope and going down on the rest of the slope. Most kids seem to notice this and follow along well enough, but some of them just don't notice or actively try and get in the way. One girl of about 9 years old slowly zig-zagged up half of the slope towing her GT Racer. She never looked up to see if anybody was coming or wanted to come down towards her. Another younger boy came up the middle of the steeper slope turned around about halfway up and went down a little bit on his sled and then started to climb in the same place. Six of had been waiting patiently for him to finish getting to the top but it didn't seem as if he wanted to or understood that those of us standing there were doing anything other than watching. I asked him, nicely, to not climb in the middle of the slope so we could go down and he turned and walked across the rest of the slopes, in front of a lot of other people, to get to the other side.