The Silo

Silos are a great place to hide. Okay, not the silo itself, but the small connector between the silo and the barn provides a great hiding spot for a game of hide and seek. I know this because I spent a long time hiding in the silo connector on Sauerman's farm. It was such a good hiding spot that I used it more than once.

The Sauerman's farm was one of the best places on Earth to play hide and seek. Their yard and barn overflowed with great hiding places. A single game of hide and seek seemed to take forever; especially if you were "it" and were trying to find everyone else.

Dick was usually the hardest to find because he knew every hiding place. In fact, teaming up with one of the Sauerman kids provided the best chance of finding a good hiding spot.

I teamed up with Nancy one day to find the best spot. I don't remember who was "it" at the time, but we took off for the silo as soon as they started counting. We sneaked into the silo connector to hide; and there we stayed. There were gaps in the wall boards that someone could peek through to see the inside of the connector, so we couldn't just stand on the ground. We had to hide better than that!

The solution was to climb partway up the ladder that scaled the side of the silo. A few rungs were all that was necessary to be invisible to anyone who didn't want to crawl through the opening in the barn but, instead, just peeked through the gaps in the wall.

No one ever thought to go in there and look up.

As a result, it was the perfect hiding place. Nancy and I hid in there together more than once until, eventually, our hiding place was revealed. Debbie, Kim and Beth teased me relentlessly that we had hid in there so I could kiss her. We didn't kiss, though. In fact, it would have been kind of hard since whichever one of us was lower on the ladder could, at best, only be able to kiss the other one's ankles because they were on higher rungs.

That didn't stop the speculation and teasing, though.

The only thing that bothered me about the teasing was that it wasn't true.