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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow—Or Not
By William A. Gralnick without the snow. That joy ended when my brother went would remain of the sled instead of its remains. If it was a
off to college and handed me the snow shovel. rock, the now much lighter sled would scoot over it, and
This came to mind as We had two modes of motion. If the snow was deep you again were chasing it down the hill.
we watched on TV the enough, we’d take a garbage can cover to the park. It had One year we went up to Ticonderoga in NY State.
whiteout conditions and to be deep enough, so the handle didn’t scrape the ground. Up by the famous Fort on Lake Champlain, it was snow
miles long traffic tie-up Of course, we could take a sled. The sled was good for heaven. We went tobogganing. That is a whole ‘nother
from last month’s snows both kinds of snow. Sledding had some mathematics in it. kettle of fish (frozen, of course). Several people sit on
that blanketed so much of the nation. Remember learning to ride a bike and then forgetting that this flat board that has a curl in its front, theoretically
Oh, I loved it when it snowed. Like Snoopy, I’d catch you had to calculate how and where to turn? A sled was to keep the snow and whatever else out of your eyes.
the flakes on my tongue. It was a pain to put on all that trickier. It had handles in the front, but they turned the Goggles work better. Compared to a toboggan, a sled is a
heavy clothing, but truth be told I only had to stand runners only so far, as in not very. If you wanted to change Model T. Compared to a sled, a toboggan is a rocket ship.
still. My mother did the heavy lifting. The first sound of lanes, so to speak, or more importantly, miss something And because several people are on it, their weight gives
snow? The metallic clicking of the metal straps on my looming in front of you, you had to have your eyes peeled it speed. It has neither handles nor rudder. Because the
galoshes. I guess because it signaled that the next thing and start your calculation early. In a panic, if you turned wood is the only thing between your butt and the ground,
would be throwing open the door and plunging into the the handles too hard and fast, in a panic, you could end up you feel everything in extremis. I thought I saw a sign at
winter wonderland. Sorry, I missed a step. That was my in the snow, tossed aside by the sled, which you now had to the entrance, “Abandon all hope ye who enter…”
mother going over my body like the final check of the chase down the hill. Or that panic could be the realization Toboggans elicit the same effect as roller coasters.
space shuttle to make sure that not a draft nor a flake could that you were going to hit the tree or rock you were trying to Except on ’coasters, it’s what you see that makes you
penetrate my armor. The final product was a snowman miss. The best strategy was to bail out and hope something scream. On a toboggan, it’s that you can’t see that makes
you scream. At some point, one wonders how the dickens
this thing gets stopped. A successful stop turns on the
ª guy’s ability who changes the angle of the run so that
eventually, you are no longer zooming down but gradually
going up. I think I remember a snow barrier, for a just in
case. I’m pretty sure that if it breached the barrier, they’d
still be chasing us.
Two Boca Raton Offices: 151 N. Ocean Blvd. • 21073 Powerline Rd. #63 You might be thinking this yarn came to mind because
of the snowstorms that just hit Brooklyn. Not at all. In
THINKING OF SELLING - NOW IS A GREAT TIME fact, it was someone who reminded me of the day it
snowed in Miami and hearing the weatherman say it might
just happen again. While this and other stories popped
INVENTORY IS LOW into my mind, so did this thought. Yes, buildings emptied
as people downtown left their desks and rushed to the
INVENTORY IS LOW
VILLA SONRISA elevators and onto the street. In the “subs,” it was the
same thing. Homemakers threw on whatever was handy
and ran out into the street.
NEW LISTING UNDER CONTRACT was for catching those one-of-a-kind crystals. Nope,
Everyone had their tongues out. You might think that
again. Remember, this was Miami circa 1960. Everyone
thought or hoped that a cocaine shipment had blown up
and your tongue was the gateway to the Magic City. Ba
da boom! BTW my now longtime preference is not snow.
IMPECCABLY MAINTAINED AND TASTEFULLY UPDATED 2 BR, 2 BATH VILLA Columnist and author Bill Gralnick was born and
Robin Donegan WITH ONE CAR GARAGE, jUST STEPS FROM THE COMMUNITY POOL IN raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is writing a three-part
humorous memoir. The first is “The War of the Itchy
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