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Grandfather Says: The Pogo Stick Snowshoe

By RD Blakeslee

Some time ago, Grandmother’s brother in Minnesota, Ron, said the snow was so deep that winter that he thought he might need a pogo stick to get around.

So, Grandfather decided to properly equip him and bought an old snowshoe, on top of which he mounted a hollow wooden tower with thumbscrews projecting into it, for attaching it to a pogo stick. He put a lifetime guarantee label on it and sent it to Ron, with a return address to Ron’s son-in-law, who owned a local hardware store.

Well, the origin of that enterprise was supposed to remain a mystery but, unfortunately, Grandfather made the shipping box by turning another old box inside-out and neglected to remove its shipping label, now inside, addressed to him.

Exposed! Damn!

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About the Author: RD Blakeslee is a nonagenarian in West Virginia who built his net worth by only investing in that which can be enjoyed during acquisition and throughout life, as opposed to papers in a drawer, like stocks and bonds. You can read more about him here.

Original oil painting by: Grandfather’s wife

June 2, 2022

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Comments

  1. 1

    RD Blakeslee says

    Grandfather talked to Ron on the telephone a few days ago and Ron said he still had the snowshoe and had tried it out in the summertime.

    Ron is old like Grandfather and would do such things like riding a pogo stick with a snowshoe on it in the summertime.

  2. 2

    Robert says

    I wonder what something like this would fetch on ebay? If you’ve ever been there you’d know there is a market for everything.

    • 3

      RD Blakeslee says

      Robert, It’s been awhile but I probably bought that old snowshoe on eBay!

      Don’t remember what I paid for it, though.

      • 4

        Robert says

        LOL! Figures!

  3. 5

    RDBlakeslee says

    Yep. Prices on old snowshoes are not exactly memory stimulators …

  4. 6

    bill says

    lol Thanks for the laugh today.

    • 7

      RD Blakeslee says

      You’re welcomw, Bill.

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