Gogarty wrote in news:20080926-202820.842.0
@Gogarty.news.bway.net:

Did we all walk five miles to school in the snow uphill both ways?


Nope. I drove the bus! Slid down a long hill at a 45 degree angle off
into the right ditch on glare ice when I was a senior, my last year in high
school. Not a single kid even had a bump and I got a commendation for
saving them. The school was covering its ass. It should have been CLOSED
for a snow day that day and we no sooner got there, a bit late, when they
sent everyone home with more snow on the way.