Step 1 : Introduction to the question "6. If someone thinks you ought to skedaddle, what is it they want you to do?"
...1. Break the ice 2. Lock and load 3. Try your darndest 4. Get lost "Skedaddle" seems to have come into use around the time of the civil war. Some believe that the Roaring Twenties expression "23 skidoo" derived from "skedaddle". (The derivation of the "23" portion seems not to be well worked out.)
