Old Enough To Remember?

In my first couple years of high school, I couldn't get very far up the rope. Then between my sophomore year and junior year, I split 20 cords of wood. Climbing the rope was easy. Now what? I'd never paid attention to how to get down...because I never had gone that far up before. So I slid down, using my hands for braking. They were a little hot when I got down.

So I did it again. Again, no problem...till I had to go down. This time, my hands were bleeding. The teacher wouldn't let me do it a third time and only gave me a B on it because I didn't do it three times.

The guys I wrestled against at my weight class would do it upside down three times for an A. No feet, just hands.

Chris
 
scootac said:
Yep!
Little skinny me found it easy, big football guys couldn't get their butt 2' off the ground!
Prolly helped that I liked to shinny up little saplings high enough to bend them over so far I was touching ground again.
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Ha! I used to do that tree thing too.

Once I decided to go for a really big one. Went up, bent it over but it didn't come down much. Started hand-over-hand going out further towards the little end. Still 20+ feet off the ground. Went further and further with the tree stubbornly, stoutly refusing to bend down further. Another few feet out then, SNAP!, I fall the last 20 feet. First of the 5 or 10 times I've fallen out or been knocked out of trees over the years. (haven't kept a close count)

No big deal. Felt about the same as hitting the ground after riding down the round reserve parachute. Had to ride the reserve 3 times over the years. Better landings when the backup isn't a round shoot.

Yes, I too am amazed I'm still alive.

Later,
Kent Larson in Minnesota
 
Uncle Phil said:
You want a buzz - bite a plug off of some Days Work or Black Mariah chewing tobacco ... :eek:
Used to sell all of that stuff (along with various brands of Garrett and Bruton snuff) in the country store I worked in as a teenager - including pickled pig feet, pork brains in a can and souse! ;)
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Pickled Pigs Feet.............to this day no one has got enough alcohol down me to try those. Check out this recipe. Can't decide whether to laugh or throw up.

Pickled Pigs Feet - Grandpa Josh's

grandpajosh.com grandpajosh.com
 
motornut said:
How about vinyl couch covers that stuck to any exposed skin and made it impossible to hear TV when creaking. Vinyl car seat covers that made it so you sold a beat up car with great looking seats
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A neighbor had clear vinyl seat covers on his bench-style front seat. Back in the days of short shorts and optional seat belts, he and his wife were on a Sunday afternoon ride and got rear ended at a stop. Ripped the skin off the back of her thighs from the shorts to the knee. Dr put her in the hospital and treated it like a 3rd degree burn. The driver was wearing knee length cutoffs and bounced forward into the steering wheel, leaving him with an enormous bruise on his face.
Gott'a think ahead when picking options.
 
Yeah, there weren't so many. We called them hobos or just bums and pretended that we couldn't see them. Had a couple living down the street in the woods.
 
motornut said:
Yeah, there weren't so many. We called them hobos or just bums and pretended that we couldn't see them. Had a couple living down the street in the woods.
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They're everywhere here now. Someone that used to be on the fire department told me they called them"urban outdoorsmen ". So that's what we call them now.
 
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