my yipsi steve snowball story

[double trouble]

It was about 1969 and i was about 12 years old. Don Demonthaller and i lived a few doors from each other but his house was across the street. we lived in hunnington woods about 1 block off the golf course. On many occasions we used to pull pranks and pull toilet paper across the street when a car would come near so they would screech to a halt , light the famous bag of poop on fire on the neighbors porch on devils night, or wax the locals car windows , for fun. we had many snowball fights and got chased for lobbing a few snowballs onto car roofs a couple times.
this particular weekend , we had thoughts of throwing a few good snowballs onto the windshields of unknown passing motorists who were traveling along Scotia road adjacent to rackham golf course. I was set up as the advance man ,scouting the cars for large occupants who could chase us and police cruisers. I would make a raised hand signal if it was safe to chuck the projectile at the next vehicle. the speed limit was only 25 so it was an easy target for the 2 of us aspiring Detroit tigers pitching prospects.
I waited in the bushes until i saw the next appropriate victim and gave Don the signal to nail her. Don made a perfect throw and then came running our way, ,but something was wrong and he was as mad as a disturbed hornet.It seems that good old Don was a good Christian boy and the nun that we had just ambushed was not on his "safe" list. We got into a little fight and the ensuing snowball was that ended our friendship for quite some time. Not only did Don think he was going to hell ,but I put a good solid fastball right into his ear. I don't think our friendship was ever quite the same. It did cure me from throwing snowballs at cars and I never did it again.

[steve ypsi]

my yipsi steve snowball story
Yes but we were not mean like you, snowballs at cars, come to think about it we would have waited for hours for one car to pass when I was 12 maybe thats why we never thought about it.
and Please spell Ypsi right, Yipsi is not correct, You make jest of Ypsi which is short
for Demetrius Ypsilanti 1793-1832
Place of birth Romania
Place of death Vienna, Austria
Allegiance Russia
Greece
Years of service 1814-1832
Commands Eastern Greece
Battles/wars Defense of Castro Larissa at Argos, Battle at the Pass of Petra


. In 1828, he was appointed by Capo d'Istria commander of the troops in East Hellas. He succeeded, on the 25 September 1829, in forcing the Turkish commander Aslan Bey to sign a capitulation at the Pass of Petra, which ended the active operations of the war.
He died at Vienna on January 3, 1832 and was known for his affair with Manto Mavrogenous. The city of Ypsilanti, Michigan in the United States of America is named after him. A bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti stands between a Greek and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower.

Now You have some history of the Name Ypsilanti, don't you feel better gaining this new found knowledge.
By the way the students Of E.M.U have a story of the water tower that the Bust Of Gen Ypsilanti but I can't say here