My father — now in his 80s — claimed he had to walk "uphill, both ways, to school" in front of my grandfather; my grandfather quipped: "there was a whole hill b

My father — now in his 80s — claimed he had to walk "uphill, both ways, to school" in front of my grandfather; my grandfather quipped: "there was a whole hill between the house and the school: I kept telling you boys to go around it!"