How I know I am not adopted--besides the Irish chin and the Italian hips.

Me: We went sledding Saturday.
Mom: You? You went sledding.
Me: I did. I sucked it up, and I decided to just do it. It looked like fun! I mean, everyone else was having fun.
Mom: So how you'd do?
Me: I think it's safe to say that I am not a lover of danger.
Mom: I'd say so.
Me: I am missing the risk gene. I have no need for speed.
Mom: So, no more sledding for you?
Me: WHO WOULD LIKE SLEDDING? You throw yourself down a hill! I have spent my whole life avoiding falling down hills!
Mom: Ookay.
Me: I'm being hurtled down a hill and people are running away! I was inches away from head trauma! I do not understand winter sports.
Mom: As your father says about skiing: you put two sticks on your feet and throw your face in the snow.
Me: Oh, I won't ski. No.
Mom: I think that's for the best.

Comments

[BlabberMouse]

You have never not made me laugh out loud, Finslippy.

I swear.

[bambooska]

At least you could be the one making the snowman in the photography, yeah?

[Tinkersdamn]

I took my kids sledding for the first time in their lives earlier this year. Didn't think anything of it; I grew up in ND. Sledding! Woo! Yeah. They're little London kids.I think they enjoyed themselves overall... best moment was the 3 yr old yelling "I HAVE ENOUGH SNOW IN MY CRACK TO BUILD A SNOWMAN!!!"

[Susan]

I love sledding, it gives me a chance to sit in the car and read.

[Katie]

I LOVE your dads view on skiing! Perfectly reflects my sentiments too.

[Janet in Seattle]

I seriously hope you were not exaggerating your reaction to the sledding, because that is exactly how I feel about it.

[Alice Bradley]

Janet: I probably downplayed it, if anything. THE HORROR.

[Melissa]

I don't get it either! Definitely going to have to be something the hubs does with the kids. Maybe we should move to Kansas or somewhere really flat- take the whole idea of sledding out of the equation.

[Amanda]

Oh Lord, agree 100%!!! I went skiing for the first time in December and I hated every second. So stressful!!!

[Lindsey Petersen]

This was so funny!! Thanks for the laugh.

[Holly]

Too funny! I LOVE skiing. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be in the Olympic games in four years, I just need some lessons...

[Emily]

Tinkersdamn's comment made me laugh out loud! I don't do cold; my kind of snow activity is reading a good book by a fire with a cup of hot cocoa in hand. I prefer to send all the kids with Dad to go sledding. Much easier on everyone. Glad you survived!

[O.G.]

Great Story. I'm with you...not really a cold weather sport person.

[WendyPinNJ]

LOL! I feel EXACTLY the same about winter sports! And my family doesn't do well with them in general. First time we went skiing as a family I was 16. First day mom fell and broke her leg! Oh, yeah, let's do some more of THAT! Then, shortly after graduating college and less than a week before I started my first "real job" in NYC (commuting from Northern NJ), I fell and tore my ACL!!

The End!

Plus, it's expensive and COLD! Who likes cold?

[statia]

See, sledding doesn't bother me, unless it's a ridiculously steep hill or mountain or something. Skiing will never happen. I'm always afraid I'd fall off the mountain. People tell me that's not possible, but if I were on skis? They would find a cliff and throw me off.

[Beth]

I always have the apres-ski instead of the ski. Works great.

[Sara]

I am going to dork out and tell you that I am a HUGE fan and I love following you on Twitter: you crack me up!!! :) Thanks for being hilarious and making my internet time so much more fun.

[Asha Dornfest {Parent Hacks}]

My husband, on skydiving: "Why would I pay someone to force me jump out of a perfectly good plane?"

My husband, on windows: "If God wanted us to spend time outdoors, he wouldn't have invented windows."

[Marinka]

But you do the luge, right?

[Melissa]

You know, I LOVED sledding as a kid - as an adult, I prefer palm trees to pine trees. The fact that my daughter has no love for the snow is FINE with me! I am perfectly ok with that.

[Alexandra]

Oh, now I have further validation for always coming here.

You are my sister!!!!!!!!!!!

[puncturedbicycle]

In 1983ish, some friends and I used our snow day to sled down hills in the South Mountain Reservation and ended up flying - tandem - at full speed into a parked car. I couldn't raise my arms for a couple of days. So yeah, I'm on your side.Don't even get me started on skiing.

[JustLinda]

My 26 year old daughter went skiing for the first time. In Tahoe. She made one awkward run down the hill the first day and then she was done. Thankfully, there were hot tubs and alcohol so she still had a great time.

She said "I guess I didn't get the skiing gene." I've never been skiing myself.

I told her "Sorry 'bout that." I took the fall. (Pun intended. God I love puns.)

[Heidi]

THANK YOU. Inches away from head trauma is no way to go through life.

[Catherine]

You know what makes the sledding thing better? Snow pants. Like, grownup ones for you. Just don't look in the mirror before leaving the house.