Re: Kids today are soft, and “walking it off”...
Hits close to home for me. Once I had to walk 5 blocks home, on ice skates, with a fractured skull. Happened in an era long before the litigious society had taken hold, so my dad could only petition City Hall (successfully, I’ll say) to get a pay phone installed at the venue in question.
That beats my story.
Walking 2.5 miles home in 5 degree weather after having three teeth pulled.
Wow. Rough.
My experience wasn’t quite as bad, but still left me with a strong memory.
I had to walk home in a blizzard once. I was 5 years old. Trying to walk down the street and the wind was so strong I kept getting blown into the front yards of the houses along the street. Couldn’t tell where the street ended and the yard started because the snow was so deep. Walking with my head down against the wind and I would look up every so often and realize I was in the middle of someone’s yard instead of in the street. I really worried the whole way that I was not going to make it. Survival instinct is strong! Or maybe in my case just stubbornness.