Comments on: Logistics http://isoglossia.com/2006/01/17/logistical-nightmare/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:02:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jdog http://isoglossia.com/2006/01/17/logistical-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-566 jdog Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:24:43 +0000 http://isoglossia.com/?p=280#comment-566 I don't understand at all why people love it, and so I will joyfully sit in the bar and "watch" Adam while you two ski. My husband (and son?) will snowboard. I promise not to let Adam eat too many bottle caps. I don’t understand at all why people love it, and so I will joyfully sit in the bar and “watch” Adam while you two ski. My husband (and son?) will snowboard. I promise not to let Adam eat too many bottle caps.

]]> By: Jane http://isoglossia.com/2006/01/17/logistical-nightmare/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Jane Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:08:58 +0000 http://isoglossia.com/?p=280#comment-565 I have a theory that you have to introduce children to these potentially dangerous (but entirely manageable if learned properly) activities during that window of youth where it never occurs to them that "this could hurt." I was introduced to skiing at the age of 18 which was long after my window of "this could hurt" had closed, so it did hurt and it still does hurt 17 years later (in my left knee to be exact). I hated it. But ... I DO understand why people love it. The exhilaration is palpable even to those of us tangled in a heap of skis, fleece, and screaming tendons at the base of a pine tree. I have a theory that you have to introduce children to these potentially dangerous (but entirely manageable if learned properly) activities during that window of youth where it never occurs to them that “this could hurt.” I was introduced to skiing at the age of 18 which was long after my window of “this could hurt” had closed, so it did hurt and it still does hurt 17 years later (in my left knee to be exact). I hated it.

But … I DO understand why people love it. The exhilaration is palpable even to those of us tangled in a heap of skis, fleece, and screaming tendons at the base of a pine tree.

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