This is just one of my "growing up on the farm" stories. Tom and Steve are my brothers. We were not too bright.
Tom decided to ride the toboggan all by himself. He towed it to the top of the hill up past the orchard and decided to ride it down in a new way. Steve and I watched as Tom lay face down on the craft. What the hell was he doing? He had his head under the curved front cowl of the toboggan and therefore couldn’t see ahead. He started his slide down the hill anyway. As he picked up speed his track started curving to the right, toward the ditch. Obviously he expected it to go straight. It didn’t. Unfortunately he was taking dead aim at the only tree at the bottom of the hill but he didn’t know it. Steve and I yelled at him to bail out but he ignored us or didn’t hear. He continued on at a high rate of speed right at the tree. We tried not to think what would happen to his head when he crashed into the tree. We braced ourselves for the inevitable. Then he zoomed right on past the tree and disappeared off the ditch bank. We ran down there not knowing what we’d find. He had sailed off the bank and landed on the far side of the ditch, narrowly missing some big rocks. We found him standing there next to the toboggan with that “what the hell just happened” look on his face. He was OK. We followed the track back to the oak tree. He had missed it by about an inch and a half.
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