Advent 2025 E7 - The Trashy Sledding Hill...

A micro-dose of smart-ass notes to listen while it snows.

December 7th. So here's a winter activity that is very difficult to do around

here anymore because we don't have a lot of snow.

But I know as a kid, I lived right down the road from a sledding hill.

Which one? Woodwind Park.

It was right down the street from my house. Where did they sled there?

I lived right up front by Willow Creek.

Like by the entrance, you know, when that road turns right, there's a hill right there. Okay.

Anyway, that used to be the highlight. We used to love when it would get cold snow.

And then the best day was the second day because you usually get icy and we were like demons.

But yeah. So I also made the mistake one year.

I had a normal plastic sled, but then one year I realized, wait a second, I have pool inner tubes.

And you filled those up. We used to like doing jumps.

Well, I didn't think. and one year I took one of our summer it was older so

it wasn't a complete loss but

I hit that jump and it hit the ground and completely exploded like a blow.

Did you just go jumbling off or were you shocked that it exploded when it exploded

I was like but it was enough of like the explosion cushion kind of like,

it didn't hurt but then I was like well shit now I gotta go home and get Another sled.

Yeah. Or a garbage bag.

Garbage bag? What the fuck? I feel like we use Garbage bag? I feel like we always

use unconventional items to sled on.

What country did you live in? Did you live in America where you couldn't afford

a fucking sled? Jesus. Fucking God.

Somebody talk to your father about this garbage bag. Look at that little white girl in her hefty sled.

That wouldn't even work at all. Hey, tell your story, because I have one.

I do have one, and it'll be quick. We took sledding very seriously.

As a kid, it was no bullshit.

You fucking had it. You got to go as fast as you can, do jumps.

You got to do all the stuff.

Plastic sleds, or did you get the inflatable? So we had those shit ass sleds

that like your grandpa had or whatever with the blades on them or whatever.

Oh my gosh, the deadly ones.

Yeah, like you'd run a kid's arm and cut his arm off when you ran over.

So it used to be like. But those were like, they went super slow, so they sucked.

So we used to get mad because we used to build ramps and if some little fucking

kid ran through it. We had one of those, yeah.

He was exiled. Oh my God, you got a little. It didn't handle the ramps well.

No, it just cut through them. Not like bread.

We were like we would make fun of kids that brought those

we'd be like oh you got the little rascal sled nice nice

no we had the orange plastic fucking speed sleds

and then if you put two people on it oh yeah it would go even

faster that would go slower and like we get chrisco on there we would do all

that shit and the and the um whatever the metal disc sleds were the best the

clark griswolds yeah oh my gosh i don't even know what yeah those were bad motherfuckers, but.

Sledding wasn't the only thing going on back in

those times oh boy because my brother and i

would bring a playboy you jerk

so there was a sledding is not that sexy there was a hill at one of our friends

because we lived in we lived in that frankfurt rich town so one of our friends

just this whole front yard was the sledding hill huge front yard oh wow you

go down there tim was his name.

He had model trains in his house, like full model train set.

So it was a cool experience.

And then we would bring the playboy, put that in the sewer pipe.

And so, like, you're waiting your turn to do the sled hill. Oh.

You fucking go through the Playboy.

Oh, my God. Maybe have a seat. So, Jesus Christ. Jerking and sledding.

That's my sledding story. Okay. Okay. This went way darker than I anticipated.

I only have, so I have a sled story that's not really actually a Christmas story.

But so one time when we had a boat when I was young.

So, yeah, I did sled sometimes on garbage bags. Maybe. I don't know.

I feel like. How is it related when you have a boat? Wait.

Wait. Wait for it. Wait for it.

We brought a plastic sled on the boat.

And my uncle decided to pull.

Like he wanted to go on that plastic sled behind the boat. In the lake.

So you were too drunk for it.

This was Lake Litch. Full Trash. Lake Michigan. Oh, my God.

So my dad was driving. Say your white trash without saying your white trash.

No, that's like, what the fuck? My dad was driving the boat.

My uncle was on the back on the road. So he tried to do it? Like,

you know how we tube up in Wisconsin?

Yeah, but it's a sled. It's not a plastic sled. This is redneck wakeboarding.

Well, needless to say. It had to, like, shatter apart.

Needless to say, it did not work out. Yeah, like the force of the water on that

would have shattered it. It beat him in the face.

Because it's too flexible. And finally he was able to flag my dad down enough so he would stop.

Because I know your dad was probably like, just looking ahead,

not looking back at all. 50 miles an hour.

So that is my favorite sled memory. Oh my God.

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