Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 03, 2022

It was probably a grown-up “remembering” their childhood.

The name of the person who said that is “Notme!” … and if you ask someone else who it was, they’re named “Ida Noe”.

Dipstick, take the rake out of the leaf pile first!

The pile does have to be more than a few inches deep.

Don’t forget the hidden fire hydrant

For a time, the local fire department used to foam the sports field at the high school, so the kids could dive in it, until someone broke their neck.

Its not the landing its removing all the leaf fragments from your clothes.

Leaf piles and to-good-to-be-true sales pitches. Think before you jump.

First time Frazz went into a rerun week.

The lesson might be to take “They” with more than a grain of salt. Prod the pile twice, jump in once.

The leaves are fine. The problem is the cinder blocks that they cover.

I recall fall days before I had any responsibility for much of anything when people would rake the leaves into the street and burn them in piles in the gutter. I liked the aroma of burning leaves off somewhere. Then rains would wash away the ashes and the job was done.

Check out Stella: https://youtu.be/OdaKpRcA_i8

Once jumped out of the pin-oak tree into a pile of leaves. Never doing that again…

A fresh pile of new fallen leaves makes a good landing spot for the first kid only. Why the second and third kids follow is a mystery, or a learning experience.

Yep – I did that exactly once.

A 4 ft tall leave pile is fairly soft when your 6, and weigh maybe 45 lbs. NOT so soft when your 12 and weigh about 100.

Someone here will calculate a leaf’s resistance to compression and determine how deep the pile needs to be in order to cushion the fall of a body with the mass of a particular child.

A 4 ft tall leaf pile is fairly soft, when your 6 yrs old and maybe 45 lbs. NOT so much when you’re 12 and maybe weigh 100. and when you’re a 6ft 2", 235lb 60 yr old, it’s positively suicidal ! Don’t ask me how I know this.

It may depend how far you fall. Still an improvement over bare ground, right?

Large kid, small pile, apparently.