In the winter, one of our favorite "activities" was taking turns running across the thin ice on one of the ponds.
Innevitably, that would get boring if the ice wasn't thin enough to crack out below us - so we'd start throwing large rocks through the ice to weaken in.
It'd always end with somebody falling through and us dragging him out - it was a small pond and the water was fairly shallow in most spots... 4 feet or so give or take a few feet. Which was probably up to our chins given our age.
One of our friends had his stylish 1970's skimobile suit on (that's what we called them anyways - the ones with the two reflective racing stripes down the side - I'm sure you all remember them)
His suit apparently liked to float.
He fell through one of our 'ice bridges' and plunged deep into the water and some how moved sideways and came up under solid ice - and stuck there. I remember seeing him flailing away under the ice with nothing to grab onto.
I was of the (#*&$ing-my-pants-is-my-only-defense-mechanism age, but my older brother had more of his wits about him.
He just dove under, grabbed our friend, and slid him out without a second of hesitation.
We of course always made fun of my friend's spastic flailing from then on.
- and it WAS funny.
But my god - what a STUPID thing to be doing.
And why my parents never questioned us when we'd always be coming home soaking wet for a change of clothes in the middle of a winter day is beyond me.
I guess they were just happy we were all out of the house, and details didn't matter.
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