John grew up in the South, and spent most of his military career in hot places, so New England came completely unexpected. He still can't get his head around "twelve feet of snow" up on the mountains, or the six feet he gets stacked up over two days his first winter there.

He fell down exactly eighteen times when he first learned to ice-skate, but he tells everyone "two or three times" when they ask.

The first time he ended up on top, Rodney had tried to charge him into the boards and John had gotten out of the way at the last second, but had tripped over his own skates and toppled over, and they'd gone down like dominoes.