First year of college. Working at Sears & Roebuck, bunch of kids working the 6 to 9 evening shift after the lifers went home for the day. Sears was part of the big mall on the outskirts of town, where the highway turned into the long drag running North-South through town before turning back into the highway on the other end of town. The employee parking lot was in the back, behind the back lot was the river, with a tree canopy, so completely isolated and out of sight from any streets. Or police. The back lot ran the entire length of the mall, plenty of room, broken up by the light poles.
It snowed a lot in winter, the plows would usually clear it, not always, and plenty would melt during the day and freeze again later creating a really slick, slippery surface. If not compact snow and ice, then just black ice.
What fun.
After punching out at 9 pm, after any managers or older employees left, we'd get in our cars and race around the lot. Getting a good running start, then throwing our cars into sideways slides. Doing it all over again, but this time instead of mere slides throw them into tight spins. Races from one end to the other and back, slaloming around the light poles and any hapless cars still parked out there. A person could go through a whole tankful of gas in an hour, easy.
I'll say this though, driving around on the roads and streets in normal traffic with snow and ice on the road was a breeze after that. Hitting black ice unexpectedly was no problem.
Yeah, kids. You're better off not knowing.
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