AN INSURANCE NIGHTMARE!

WHEN WE LIVED IN SPOKANE AND THE SNOW CAME THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS ALWAYS LOVING MY STEP DAD. HE WOULD ATTACH EACH SLED TO EACH OTHER WITH ROPE AND THEN THE LEAD SLED TO THE BACK OF HIS TRUCK AND HE WOULD PULL US AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR HOURS. THERE COULD BE AS MANY AS 20 KIDS IN THIS CHAIN AS MORE WOULD BEG LATER WHEN THEY SAW THE FUN WE WERE HAVING.YES, AN INSURANCE NIGHTMARE-RIGHT? NO ONE WOULD DARE DO THAT TODAY UNDER PENALTY OF LAW. HE WOULD GO SLOW MIND YOU, BUT THE END SLEDS BECAME A WHIP ON EVERY CORNER AND THEY LOVED IT. THE LEAD SLED HOWEVER, HAD TO WATCH WHEN HE STOPPED SO THAT WHOMEVER WOULDN'T GO UNDER THE BACK OF THE TRUCK. IT WAS GREAT FUN, BUT THE COLD WAS NEVER MY FRIEND. I ORDINARILY WOULD COME IN TO WARM UP AFTER A HALF HOUR AND MY FINGERS WERE IN SEVERE PAIN. THERE WOULD BE A FIRE AND MOM WOULD HAVE HOT CHOCOLATE OR CIDER WAITING FOR ME. BUT TOO SOON, I WANTED TO DO IT AGAIN AND SUFFERED EVERY TIME. EXTREME COLD AND HOT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR ME.