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shenmue
(38,506 posts)UncleYoder
(233 posts)we got ice cream!
When we milked the brown cows - we got chocolate ice cream!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Takket
(21,634 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)UncleYoder
(233 posts)dead uncle comes and speaks to you.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)And of course it was 20 miles each way. Uphill. Both ways.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)LeftinOH
(5,358 posts)It's true. I didn't use a hair dryer; didn't wear a hat (wearing a hat made you look like a nerd); walked three couple blocks to school. Hair completely frozen solid. What a stupid teenager I was.
I did that exactly once, in 9th grade.
I hadn't washed my hair the night before, so did it in the morning before school.
My hair was mid back length. It froze solid into stringy icicles, then thawed out when I got to school.
Never again.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)I had a perm (oh, I'm dating myself, LOLOL) and couldn't blow dry it, instead I scrunched it with gel and walked to school with it still wet. It was frozen solid by the time I got to school.
That's not the dumbest thing I did as a teen though. Boots were every bit as unacceptable as hats. So I wore pointy flat shoes. Barefoot, because socks were for losers. One day, I walked in mild temperatures to the hockey arena to watch some local hockey games. Sat in the arena for several hours, my feet freezing and going numb. Finally, at 11 pm or so, my friend and I decided to walk home since we couldn't find a ride. It was normally a 20 minute walk but this night it took us 40 minutes. When we opened the doors to the outside, we were shocked that not only had a blizzard started, but the temperatures had dropped about 20 degrees Celcius. The windchill was crazy. About a quarter of the way home I realized I couldn't feel my feet at ALL and started stumbling. So did my friend. We, being stupid teens, thought it was funny. However, then everything started to hurt. Badly. By the time I was home, I couldn't feel from my knees down and had to look where I was putting my feet because I couldn't tell. As my legs and feet warmed up, they hurt so bad I started crying. They swelled right up. I had to take painkillers to get through the night. My friend's feet had a few blisters. We spent the weekend nursing our sore, swollen feet. Since then, my feet are ultra sensitive to the cold. I regret that decision that day to wear bare feet in flats. WTF was I thinking?
Evergreen Emerald
(13,070 posts)as I walked to school.
FSogol
(45,529 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)and went to the beach.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Buy, sell, loan
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)I caught one!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Hell literally froze over for an entire day before the devil could thaw it out.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Hell Freezes Over
(((Me and my geezer rock)))
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Clearly, we must work more quickly.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)fumbling around on the ground looking for the lens.
father none too happy
frames are expensive
JCMach1
(27,574 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)somebody told me something like that.
JCMach1
(27,574 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)I was precocious as a child.
Faux pas
(14,691 posts)Raised in SoCal
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Also raised in So Cal
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Not just no heat, but no hot water either. Mom put the oven on and boiled water to wash with. I wore my winter coat, hat, gloves in the apartment, and even went to sleep wearing them.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)way home from school. The store manager caught me and called my dad. I never did anything like that again.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)(Grew up in Los Angeles)
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)that it was colder than a rich man's heart. Still true.
To all you California types, come up to Quebec or New Brunswick in the winter to really experience winter. Nothing like 6-8 feet of snow on the ground to keep you moving when you are outdoors.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)I bow in your honor, Quebec takes the prize, hands down!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)nothing like living near the Seaway to toughen you up. The St. Laurence acts as a funnel and pulls the snow right in. Maybe the California types would like to tour New York and cross at Niagara. Plenty of winter fun at the Carnaval in Quebec from Jan-Feb each year.
ksoze
(2,068 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)uppityperson
(115,681 posts)True story of grade school days.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)It would stay below 30 degrees for a couple of days at a time.
So we froze our feet, legs and butts off. I still hate to wear dresses when it's cold. They told us that tights would suffice to keep our legs warm. Um, no, they don't. I think it was perverted male administrators wanting to look at our legs when it was cold, back in the days of miniskirts. I had one long dress that I wore to school, and the male administrators tried to figure out a way to ban THOSE.
Beats the hell outta me.
benld74
(9,910 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)we'd also stuff them in our pants, shirts, hats, just about anywhere we could to keep warm.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)That when the toilet was flushed, it broke off the wall.
This really happened to my dad in Australia!
He was stationed in Alice Springs in the 70's, and before the rest of the family came out to live there, he stayed at the BOQ at the facility and the cold water pipes had gotten so hot it cracked the porcelain toilet when it got flushed!
Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)I had an 8:00am class in a building as far distant from my dorm as possible. It was a VERY long walk and this was upstate New York in the dead of Winter. Quite literally the mucous (OK, the snot!) in my nose froze solid on the long walk and then proceeded to melt and run constantly and annoyingly down my face once I was inside the classroom. True, if nasty story.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)One morning in Chicago in the late '80s, it was 5 below. I, too, developed snot issues, but all it did was congeal inside my nose into a substance resembling rubber cement.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)When it was like that out, I just rolled over and went back to sleep. No way was I going out in that weather. The snow and wind would just whip across campus and you couldn't even see what was in front of you.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)By morning, it had numerous snowflake-like ice crystals in it! This actually happened, in Westport, CT in the mid-'70s.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)You know. Gonads.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)It was so cold the Kelvin scale had to go negative.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)climbed into the back of his truck to get warm.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Elsa of Arandelle
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Of course, this was in Miami where the coldest temps were in the 40s when I was a kid
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Well, it felt like it did.