01-15-2015, 12:41 PM
(01-15-2015, 12:21 PM)BuildingScout Wrote:(01-15-2015, 12:03 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Reading all the sidewalk comments over the last couple of days has left me wondering how our parents and grandparents ever survived, taking their lives into their hands every time they walked in winter! My respect for the earlier generations is greater than ever!
I don't know about yours, but my grandparents in Ohio couldn't leave the house for a month every winter.
Mine (and my parents, who did not own a car until the 1970s) walked everywhere in winter. I remember my Mom telling me that she occasionally walked from home (near Rockway Golf Course) to Central Meat Market in winter. Of course we have short legs and a low centre of gravity in my family, so the risk of falling was probably less.