Snow Daze

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Blizzard seventy eight. What have you got?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well? I remember, you know, back in those days when
we had Ela Grasso as our governor, the last good
democratic governor, they didn't predict like you said in this
great article. You're just playing here. And my father worked
at Pratt and Whitney and North tab and where Amazon
is now. And he was one of those guys that
never worked, never missed work, you know. So he went
in and then he went home. On his way home

(00:26):
now that they lived in Fox and across from Shop
right up the hill. Okay, I'm rude eighty yeah, okay,
And he got stuck on the highway where the Middletown
Avenue exit is. Okay, So he abandoned his car. He
had to walk from there up Root eighty by where
Walmart is now and everything else down and then where

(00:46):
Shop right up is. He had to go up the hill.
He had to walk it. Okay. So I got home,
you know, I was home because I did construction. I
didn't work that day. And I called him up and
said that how you doing. He goes, well, I had
a abandoned the car up up there, he said, Dave,
I didn't think I was gonna make it. Yeah, you know,
he walked from think about it, you know, you know

(01:06):
that area, you know, and thank god he made it.
And you know, my sister got caught up stopped on
Russo Avenue which is a hill, and I had four
wheel drive. I was pulling everybody out the next day.
But it was a frigging nightmare. But nothing like now
where you know, they tell you, they tell you everything.
Then it's a different world. It was actually a better
world because they didn't tell you how to live your

(01:27):
life and everything that goes with it. Yeah, but yeah, yeah,
I mean its probably made it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I mean for me seventy eight, I was I was
a grade schooler, so I've got nothing but wild memories
of full, full days outside all day every day, snowball
fights and snow and snow forts, and but there was
there was this just lingering disbelief that tomorrow we're still off,

(01:56):
like we got so much time off from school. So
my my takeaway, you know, And it was an age
where parents didn't their anxieties were kept to themselves. So
it was yeah, if they were nervous, if they were
nervous about anything, you know, the running out of heat
or bills or whatever we didn't right, it was just
a party for us. Yeah, it was just any That.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is so true. I could talk about stories. You know
that the Terrans kept it to themselves and made it work.
God bless them.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, so you know it's and the other thing. You
played outside all day, but you never got cold. You
just had a good time.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Oh, tremendous. It was tremendous. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, that's how my grandchildren are.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I'm glad to care. I'm glad that you're carrying on
the tradition. I appreciate the call, my man, stay safe today,
stay inside, keep those calls coming in. Let us know
what you're seeing and how you're doing. You can email
me Vinnie Penn at SBC global dot net. Triggered a
couple other memories there. I don't know about the never
getting cold. I don't think. I think you just didn't care,
because I have vivid memories of coming in and man

(03:01):
ice coated socks got when you got those shoes off
your lifeless feet, your socks were covered with ice, and
what we would do take the socks off your feet
would just be bluish red. We had radiators in my
house growing up that would hass and everything, and they
had the covers on them. We'd lay those on top.

(03:23):
They would just start melting right away. It was like
a humidifiers and we'd put our feet right on top
of the radiators until they got hot. It was complete numb.
It took like ack I hazard a guess, a couple
of minutes, maybe more. It was complete numb. You wouldn't
feel anything. Then you'd start to feel a glorious warm
so you'd press your feet down on them while you

(03:45):
were laying on your back, and then it would start
to get too hot and you'd take your feet like
you were that close to hypothermia or whatever. So he's
not wrong. From just being out in it all day,
we would sled down steps. We're crazy, you know. This
is a crazy generation really in a lot of ways.
Last night my kids got into a conversation about uh

(04:09):
because they're looking outside and they were remembering all the
snowmen that they built out there, and the one time
my son and I made a snow igloo. Is you
buy the little snow brick makers? Do you ever have
one of those? Oh? Yeah, absolutely. The thing barely made
it through, like it made it to the end because
they're kind of cheap. We made the igloo, but by
the time we got to the end of it, that

(04:29):
thing just got thrown away. It barely made it through,
but we made a sweet igloo. Then they were remembering
the name, so like, do you remember Oscar and Harold
and that's between the two of them. I'm just sitting
there and I have photos of one snowman, and they
rattled off the name, and I go, you remember like
the differences between the dew, and then Luke brought up

(04:51):
one and he goes, but you tackled him. This is
like the third time he's mentioned this this winter. He's
like the snowman that I made that you tackled, and
that it's amazing because that's when we lived in new Haven.
We moved from new Haven when he was six, so
he had to be three or four. And I went
outside with the two of them to make snow and

(05:12):
I used to sack Luke. I'd pick him up and
throw him into the snow. You know, Stelly got her
fair share too, but I did really rough house with Luke,
and I guess I do remember they built a snowman
and I thought it would be I ran from across
the yard, leapt in the air and just took the
snowman down and they cracked up. Luke has managed to

(05:37):
now turn that into some traumatic experience. All of a sudden,
it gets yeah, and you tackled it, you destroyed what
I built. So that's something that's something for probably him
and his therapist to uh to discud and realize that
he loved it. Then I'm relating to so much of
that right now, stuff that I used to bring up

(05:59):
to my parents when they were still with us, as
my mother would be dismissive and say, you're changing it.
You loved it, you loved it. I think it's just
something kids do to their parents. We take things that
at the time were loved and great and funny memories
and decide later to turn them into yeah, that was

(06:20):
a great day. Because my son is certainly doing that
to me.