"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I remember when those "saucer" things were made out of metal. I was run
> over by one at the age of 5. We lived in NJ at the time and there was a
> really nice, deep snowfall. My brothers took me with them to go sledding.
> I walked down the hill just a few yards so I could see better. One of
> those saucers came flying down the hill (you can't steer them like a
> sled). I heard my oldest brother yell "Look out!" I turned around and
> the saucer knocked me flat on my back. Bloodied my nose and split my chin
> open. They had to carry me home. Needed stitches in my chin. Forty
> seven years later I still have the scar.
>
> Jill


yikes!

A couple years ago, I broke my wrist sledding. All I did was try and push a
little tree away I was heading into. It was probably only 3 inches in
diameter, but it didn't give and my wrist did... It didn't hurt, but I
could immediately tell something was wrong... Few minutes later, her oldest
bounced off a bigger tree and broke his ankle.... That was not a good day.

I had one of those metal saucers. It was crap though. It never went very
fast and nobody ever wanted to use it.

Odd thing. People around here put toboggans on their heads in the winter.
In PA, we sat on them and went down hills. (They call knit caps "toboggans"
here. Makes me lol.)