Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:16 AM

Hoppy (3,595 posts)

Why, when I was a kid, it was so cold that.......(complete the senence).

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Why, when I was a kid, it was so cold that.......(complete the senence). (Original post)	Hoppy	Feb 2015	OP
My hands looked like a lizard	shenmue	Feb 2015	#1
when we milked the cows,	UncleYoder	Feb 2015	#2
Milk bottles delivered to our front porch had ice crystals.	In_The_Wind	Feb 2015	#3
dogs froze to fire hydrants	HereSince1628	Feb 2015	#4
your tongue would freeze to the roof of your mouth	Takket	Feb 2015	#5
I would if I knew what a senence is	B Calm	Feb 2015	#6
That's when your	UncleYoder	Feb 2015	#7
LOL! And it was so cold that the spirits had to be plowed out.	pinboy3niner	Feb 2015	#16
It's so cold the "T" can't be pronounced. n/t	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2015	#36
it made Pluto a planet.	NuclearDem	Feb 2015	#8
I wore 15 bread bags on each appendage while walking to school	tularetom	Feb 2015	#9
winner	dembotoz	Feb 2015	#22
LOL +2	B Calm	Feb 2015	#38
I think, the four Yorkshiremen said it best:	DetlefK	Feb 2015	#10
my wet hair would freeze on the way to school...	LeftinOH	Feb 2015	#11
hahahah	pipi_k	Feb 2015	#18
LOL! I did that too!	laundry_queen	Feb 2015	#63
My tears would freeze on my face	Evergreen Emerald	Feb 2015	#12
Your family could afford tears?	FSogol	Feb 2015	#48
That I drove 10 miles from my home....	trumad	Feb 2015	#13
it damaged the pawn brokers sign.	Throckmorton	Feb 2015	#14
if you put a cup of water outside it would FREEZE	Capt. Obvious	Feb 2015	#15
that...cold literally stopped and...	N_E_1 for Tennis	Feb 2015	#17
It was so cold that	pipi_k	Feb 2015	#19
I thought that was an Eagles album.	Manifestor_of_Light	Feb 2015	#52
When turned on the car's Defrosters, it blew snow.	One_Life_To_Give	Feb 2015	#20
It was so cold that we made up our minds to burn all the fossil fuels.	Orsino	Feb 2015	#21
i do remember leaving swim practice and walking outside and my glasses frames popped	dembotoz	Feb 2015	#23
It was 8 F in Florida and the Grapefruits fell from the trees like bombs	JCMach1	Feb 2015	#24
aren't there some lizards or something that live in Florida trees that drop when its cold?	KittyWampus	Feb 2015	#46
I hear it's a delicacy in Miami...	JCMach1	Feb 2015	#62
Why, my breath would freeze in my mustache!	kwassa	Feb 2015	#25
We probably wore sweaters.	Faux pas	Feb 2015	#26
We had fires in the fireplace!	Shrike47	Feb 2015	#27
Boiler broke in NYC Apartment Building	HockeyMom	Feb 2015	#28
I had to steal a pair of cheap cotton gloves from the IGA store on my	B Calm	Feb 2015	#29
I had to wear pants instead of shorts.	jeff47	Feb 2015	#30
we used to say	guillaumeb	Feb 2015	#31
Upstate New York Snow Belter here with friends from Saugenay -	hedgehog	Feb 2015	#32
barely, just barely	guillaumeb	Feb 2015	#34
...that I couldn't spell "sentence"	ksoze	Feb 2015	#33
"waaht?"	Baclava	Feb 2015	#35
girls got to wear long pants to school but had to remove them in the restroom before class	uppityperson	Feb 2015	#37
They wouldn't let girls wear slacks to school in Texas in the winter.	Manifestor_of_Light	Feb 2015	#53
I wore long underwear until May,,,,,,,,,,,	benld74	Feb 2015	#39
We not only wore bread bags over our shoes,	KMOD	Feb 2015	#40
How about this; It was so hot....	A HERETIC I AM	Feb 2015	#41
My freshman year of college	Golden Raisin	Feb 2015	#42
It must have been VERY cold	KamaAina	Feb 2015	#44
I also went to college in upstate NY, not too far from the Canadian border.	smirkymonkey	Feb 2015	#47
...when our fridge conked out, Mom could leave the milk out on the ledge overnight.	KamaAina	Feb 2015	#43
fourteen of my toes and three of my ears fell off.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb 2015	#45
A Bose-Einstein condensate formed on the inside of the car window	Taitertots	Feb 2015	#49
My nose was running icicles	meow2u3	Feb 2015	#50
we couldn't complete sente	mahatmakanejeeves	Feb 2015	#51
Message auto-removed	Name removed	Feb 2015	#54
Brass monkeys lost their.......	Manifestor_of_Light	Feb 2015	#55
pawn brokers sign n/t	Throckmorton	Feb 2015	#60
...we had to go thru Hell just to warm our feet and hands.	seveneyes	Feb 2015	#56
Our milkman	Kelvin Mace	Feb 2015	#57
"Cold really did bother me anyway"	mainstreetonce	Feb 2015	#58
I had to wear a sweater to walk to school.	RebelOne	Feb 2015	#59
...my miniskirt froze to my garter belt.	LiberalEsto	Feb 2015	#61

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:20 AM

shenmue (38,168 posts)

1. My hands looked like a lizard

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:21 AM

UncleYoder (233 posts)

2. when we milked the cows,

we got ice cream!
When we milked the brown cows - we got chocolate ice cream!

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:21 AM

In_The_Wind (72,287 posts)

3. Milk bottles delivered to our front porch had ice crystals.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:22 AM

HereSince1628 (36,063 posts)

4. dogs froze to fire hydrants

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:22 AM

Takket (16,511 posts)

5. your tongue would freeze to the roof of your mouth

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:22 AM

B Calm (28,762 posts)

6. I would if I knew what a senence is

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:24 AM

UncleYoder (233 posts)

7. That's when your

dead uncle comes and speaks to you.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:19 AM

pinboy3niner (53,339 posts)

16. LOL! And it was so cold that the spirits had to be plowed out.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:56 PM

A HERETIC I AM (22,710 posts)

36. It's so cold the "T" can't be pronounced. n/t

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:27 AM

NuclearDem (16,184 posts)

8. it made Pluto a planet.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:29 AM

tularetom (23,664 posts)

9. I wore 15 bread bags on each appendage while walking to school

And of course it was 20 miles each way. Uphill. Both ways.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:17 PM

dembotoz (15,073 posts)

22. winner

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:16 PM

B Calm (28,762 posts)

38. LOL +2

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:33 AM

DetlefK (16,015 posts)

10. I think, the four Yorkshiremen said it best:

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:07 AM

LeftinOH (5,107 posts)

11. my wet hair would freeze on the way to school...

It's true. I didn't use a hair dryer; didn't wear a hat (wearing a hat made you look like a nerd); walked three couple blocks to school. Hair completely frozen solid. What a stupid teenager I was.

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Response to LeftinOH (Reply #11)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:46 AM

pipi_k (21,020 posts)

18. hahahah

I did that exactly once, in 9th grade.

I hadn't washed my hair the night before, so did it in the morning before school.

My hair was mid back length. It froze solid into stringy icicles, then thawed out when I got to school.

Never again.

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Response to LeftinOH (Reply #11)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:28 PM

laundry_queen (8,646 posts)

63. LOL! I did that too!

I had a perm (oh, I'm dating myself, LOLOL) and couldn't blow dry it, instead I scrunched it with gel and walked to school with it still wet. It was frozen solid by the time I got to school.

That's not the dumbest thing I did as a teen though. Boots were every bit as unacceptable as hats. So I wore pointy flat shoes. Barefoot, because socks were for losers. One day, I walked in mild temperatures to the hockey arena to watch some local hockey games. Sat in the arena for several hours, my feet freezing and going numb. Finally, at 11 pm or so, my friend and I decided to walk home since we couldn't find a ride. It was normally a 20 minute walk but this night it took us 40 minutes. When we opened the doors to the outside, we were shocked that not only had a blizzard started, but the temperatures had dropped about 20 degrees Celcius. The windchill was crazy. About a quarter of the way home I realized I couldn't feel my feet at ALL and started stumbling. So did my friend. We, being stupid teens, thought it was funny. However, then everything started to hurt. Badly. By the time I was home, I couldn't feel from my knees down and had to look where I was putting my feet because I couldn't tell. As my legs and feet warmed up, they hurt so bad I started crying. They swelled right up. I had to take painkillers to get through the night. My friend's feet had a few blisters. We spent the weekend nursing our sore, swollen feet. Since then, my feet are ultra sensitive to the cold. I regret that decision that day to wear bare feet in flats. WTF was I thinking?

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:14 AM

Evergreen Emerald (12,904 posts)

12. My tears would freeze on my face

as I walked to school.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:17 PM

FSogol (42,644 posts)

48. Your family could afford tears?

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:16 AM

trumad (41,692 posts)

13. That I drove 10 miles from my home....

and went to the beach.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:17 AM

Throckmorton (3,563 posts)

14. it damaged the pawn brokers sign.

Buy, sell, loan

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:18 AM

Capt. Obvious (9,002 posts)

15. if you put a cup of water outside it would FREEZE

CNN's next hire

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:27 AM

N_E_1 for Tennis (6,540 posts)

17. that...cold literally stopped and...

I caught one!

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:48 AM

pipi_k (21,020 posts)

19. It was so cold that

Hell literally froze over for an entire day before the devil could thaw it out.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:23 PM

Manifestor_of_Light (21,046 posts)

52. I thought that was an Eagles album.

Hell Freezes Over

(((Me and my geezer rock)))

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:50 AM

One_Life_To_Give (6,036 posts)

20. When turned on the car's Defrosters, it blew snow.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:53 AM

Orsino (37,428 posts)

21. It was so cold that we made up our minds to burn all the fossil fuels.

Clearly, we must work more quickly.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:20 PM

dembotoz (15,073 posts)

23. i do remember leaving swim practice and walking outside and my glasses frames popped

fumbling around on the ground looking for the lens.

father none too happy
frames are expensive

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:28 PM

JCMach1 (26,638 posts)

24. It was 8 F in Florida and the Grapefruits fell from the trees like bombs

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:15 PM

KittyWampus (55,894 posts)

46. aren't there some lizards or something that live in Florida trees that drop when its cold?

somebody told me something like that.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:07 PM

JCMach1 (26,638 posts)

62. I hear it's a delicacy in Miami...

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:33 PM

kwassa (23,340 posts)

25. Why, my breath would freeze in my mustache!

I was precocious as a child.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:36 PM

Faux pas (12,376 posts)

26. We probably wore sweaters.

Raised in SoCal

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:43 PM

Shrike47 (6,724 posts)

27. We had fires in the fireplace!

Also raised in So Cal

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:48 PM

HockeyMom (14,337 posts)

28. Boiler broke in NYC Apartment Building

Not just no heat, but no hot water either. Mom put the oven on and boiled water to wash with. I wore my winter coat, hat, gloves in the apartment, and even went to sleep wearing them.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:53 PM

B Calm (28,762 posts)

29. I had to steal a pair of cheap cotton gloves from the IGA store on my

way home from school. The store manager caught me and called my dad. I never did anything like that again.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:07 PM

jeff47 (26,549 posts)

30. I had to wear pants instead of shorts.

(Grew up in Los Angeles)

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:11 PM

guillaumeb (42,638 posts)

31. we used to say

that it was colder than a rich man's heart. Still true.

To all you California types, come up to Quebec or New Brunswick in the winter to really experience winter. Nothing like 6-8 feet of snow on the ground to keep you moving when you are outdoors.

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Response to guillaumeb (Reply #31)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:42 PM

hedgehog (36,286 posts)

32. Upstate New York Snow Belter here with friends from Saugenay -

I bow in your honor, Quebec takes the prize, hands down!

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:53 PM

guillaumeb (42,638 posts)

34. barely, just barely

nothing like living near the Seaway to toughen you up. The St. Laurence acts as a funnel and pulls the snow right in. Maybe the California types would like to tour New York and cross at Niagara. Plenty of winter fun at the Carnaval in Quebec from Jan-Feb each year.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:48 PM

ksoze (2,068 posts)

33. ...that I couldn't spell "sentence"

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:55 PM

Baclava (11,184 posts)

35. "waaht?"

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:11 PM

uppityperson (115,438 posts)

37. girls got to wear long pants to school but had to remove them in the restroom before class

True story of grade school days.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:26 PM

Manifestor_of_Light (21,046 posts)

53. They wouldn't let girls wear slacks to school in Texas in the winter.

It would stay below 30 degrees for a couple of days at a time.

So we froze our feet, legs and butts off. I still hate to wear dresses when it's cold. They told us that tights would suffice to keep our legs warm. Um, no, they don't. I think it was perverted male administrators wanting to look at our legs when it was cold, back in the days of miniskirts. I had one long dress that I wore to school, and the male administrators tried to figure out a way to ban THOSE.

Beats the hell outta me.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:17 PM

benld74 (9,582 posts)

39. I wore long underwear until May,,,,,,,,,,,

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:18 PM

KMOD (7,906 posts)

40. We not only wore bread bags over our shoes,

we'd also stuff them in our pants, shirts, hats, just about anywhere we could to keep warm.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:25 PM

A HERETIC I AM (22,710 posts)

41. How about this; It was so hot....

That when the toilet was flushed, it broke off the wall.

This really happened to my dad in Australia!

He was stationed in Alice Springs in the 70's, and before the rest of the family came out to live there, he stayed at the BOQ at the facility and the cold water pipes had gotten so hot it cracked the porcelain toilet when it got flushed!

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:04 PM

Golden Raisin (4,297 posts)

42. My freshman year of college

I had an 8:00am class in a building as far distant from my dorm as possible. It was a VERY long walk and this was upstate New York in the dead of Winter. Quite literally the mucous (OK, the snot!) in my nose froze solid on the long walk and then proceeded to melt and run constantly and annoyingly down my face once I was inside the classroom. True, if nasty story.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:08 PM

KamaAina (78,249 posts)

44. It must have been VERY cold

One morning in Chicago in the late '80s, it was 5 below. I, too, developed snot issues, but all it did was congeal inside my nose into a substance resembling rubber cement.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:16 PM

smirkymonkey (63,221 posts)

47. I also went to college in upstate NY, not too far from the Canadian border.

When it was like that out, I just rolled over and went back to sleep. No way was I going out in that weather. The snow and wind would just whip across campus and you couldn't even see what was in front of you.

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Fri Feb 20, 2015, 03:07 PM

KamaAina (78,249 posts)