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Iohet t1_jd4y9qw wrote

Reply to comment by Littlebotweak in 2 Illinois teens on spring break killed in a sledding accident at Colorado's Copper Mountain | CNN by Lampwickhu

Sometimes I'm happy I was too poor growing up to be able to get into any shit like this. Playing on the railroad tracks and in abandoned industrial yards was dangerous enough

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-InfinitePotato- t1_jd65n82 wrote

Doing dumb stuff is a universal experience. Rich, poor, in the middle- everyone finds their own creative ways to feel death's breath on their neck.

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homerteedo t1_jd7joaj wrote

Eh, not universal. Some of us were boring.

I didn’t get drunk until after I turned 21 and was never once out beyond curfew or without my parents knowing where I was.

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Drug_fueled_sarcasm t1_jd6hn8a wrote

Too poor for sledding.

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Iohet t1_jd6np9z wrote

Too poor to travel a few states over for a mountain vacation, yes

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Drug_fueled_sarcasm t1_jd6nw8f wrote

I grew up sledding Illinois.

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Iohet t1_jd6p24p wrote

[shrug] They were sledding in Colorado

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Drug_fueled_sarcasm t1_jd6p6qk wrote

You can hurt yourself just fine sledding down a hill into a tree next to a corn field.

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Sneaky_Bones t1_jd7ys6t wrote

Ignoring nuance to make a forced point is annoying af. Going to a 2,601 ft mountain with runs as long as 1.7 miles, maintained to insure high speeds for snow sports is not the same as your average mid western sledding hill. Yes, you CAN hurt yourself doing damned near anything but some contexts afford greater opportunities obviously.

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Iohet t1_jd6sq5q wrote

We don't get snow on the hill next to a corn field here, so going sledding is a vacation, like something that someone of means does

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