Well I have to tell you that I am very thankful that you had an angel watching over you that day!! I know I don't log on here much but as soon as I saw the words "metal pole" I was worried. I'm glad to hear that you are better and must tell you a short tale of my own that includes snow, sledding and metal poles.
Well, you know here in Central Texas we don't see much snow, so when it DOES happen, it's kids jumping for joy at enough snow to barely make a foot print in. So back in '07 when we did get a good bit of snow, the kids talked me into cutting up a cardboard box to take down our driveway. Don't know if you remember our driveway but it does have a good slope to it. So I concede and we go out to have fun. Let me tell you an 8 year old does not make a very heavy object to be able to get the momentum needed to go down the hill...soooo Mom gets on the back for a little more weight (not that my 95 pound butt did any good). So we take off with a little push from little brother and sister and immediately do the 180 due to a pebble big enough to stick out of the snow, well maybe it was a bigger rock but we couldn't really tell. We also do the whole crashing into a metal pole, the pole that is a support for our carport. YAY! For Alexis anyway. She, just like C, is up and raring to go for another one just like that and then notices me laid out behind the car. My boyfriend heard the bang and came out to inspect us and thought I hit the back of the car. I honestly wish I had.
You are right my friend, a back board is pure-d H-E-double hockey sticks when you are frozen stiff. I feel for you and give you my sympathy. But never again will the cardboard box come back out and lay on our driveway during a "snow storm" lol. I hope you're looking for an honest to goodness sled for the next go round with snow.
Good times tho to retell to the grandkids some day... "I remember when your mother/father decided it was a fun thing for us to go backwards into a pole!" Good times, good times.
Well, you know here in Central Texas we don't see much snow, so when it DOES happen, it's kids jumping for joy at enough snow to barely make a foot print in. So back in '07 when we did get a good bit of snow, the kids talked me into cutting up a cardboard box to take down our driveway. Don't know if you remember our driveway but it does have a good slope to it. So I concede and we go out to have fun. Let me tell you an 8 year old does not make a very heavy object to be able to get the momentum needed to go down the hill...soooo Mom gets on the back for a little more weight (not that my 95 pound butt did any good). So we take off with a little push from little brother and sister and immediately do the 180 due to a pebble big enough to stick out of the snow, well maybe it was a bigger rock but we couldn't really tell. We also do the whole crashing into a metal pole, the pole that is a support for our carport. YAY! For Alexis anyway. She, just like C, is up and raring to go for another one just like that and then notices me laid out behind the car. My boyfriend heard the bang and came out to inspect us and thought I hit the back of the car. I honestly wish I had.
You are right my friend, a back board is pure-d H-E-double hockey sticks when you are frozen stiff. I feel for you and give you my sympathy. But never again will the cardboard box come back out and lay on our driveway during a "snow storm" lol. I hope you're looking for an honest to goodness sled for the next go round with snow.
Good times tho to retell to the grandkids some day... "I remember when your mother/father decided it was a fun thing for us to go backwards into a pole!" Good times, good times.
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