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Start with knife shoes -
Add an ice rink -
Put on knife shoes, get on ice and hope for the best -
Other Half’s work rented out an ice rink for company ‘family night’ tonight, so we went ice skating. It was the first time I’d been since 6th grade (I’m just now turned 41, do the math on how long ago that was and cry with me) I wasn’t great then, so I really didn’t know how I would do. He had never ice skating in his life, and was totally nervous even walking across the floor in skates.
I had a lot of fun, but (unfortunately) couldn’t convince him to go further than from one end of the box to the other. He claims he wants to try another day, when he isn’t surrounded by people that could pick on him everyday forever when he falls. We’ll see.
It went surprisingly well for me. Not going to lie - there was a moment when a small child turned and came towards me full speed in one of those pipe cage things, and I thought I was about to crash and burn. I briefly wondered if there was a way to sue a group of fictional characters for making me think skating was a thing I could do without dying. Luckily I managed to get out of the way (of her and her apologetic parent chasing behind) without falling, even being out of wall’s reach.
Of course halfway round the rink I lost it over absolutely nothing, and fell flat on my ass. But that was my only fall! And it wasn’t on top of a small child or anyone Other Half works with sooooo
Overall, I’m still going to call it a win.
He’s also failed at taking pics that aren’t from ridiculously far away or with a crowd of people in front, so you’ll have to accept this blurry pic as evidence I made it (I think this was like my 6th or 7th time around, because I had already lost the sweatshirt and stolen his vest instead. I got surprising hot out there!)
Add an ice rink -
Put on knife shoes, get on ice and hope for the best -
Other Half’s work rented out an ice rink for company ‘family night’ tonight, so we went ice skating. It was the first time I’d been since 6th grade (I’m just now turned 41, do the math on how long ago that was and cry with me) I wasn’t great then, so I really didn’t know how I would do. He had never ice skating in his life, and was totally nervous even walking across the floor in skates.
I had a lot of fun, but (unfortunately) couldn’t convince him to go further than from one end of the box to the other. He claims he wants to try another day, when he isn’t surrounded by people that could pick on him everyday forever when he falls. We’ll see.
It went surprisingly well for me. Not going to lie - there was a moment when a small child turned and came towards me full speed in one of those pipe cage things, and I thought I was about to crash and burn. I briefly wondered if there was a way to sue a group of fictional characters for making me think skating was a thing I could do without dying. Luckily I managed to get out of the way (of her and her apologetic parent chasing behind) without falling, even being out of wall’s reach.
Of course halfway round the rink I lost it over absolutely nothing, and fell flat on my ass. But that was my only fall! And it wasn’t on top of a small child or anyone Other Half works with sooooo
Overall, I’m still going to call it a win.
He’s also failed at taking pics that aren’t from ridiculously far away or with a crowd of people in front, so you’ll have to accept this blurry pic as evidence I made it (I think this was like my 6th or 7th time around, because I had already lost the sweatshirt and stolen his vest instead. I got surprising hot out there!)
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Date: 2018-12-18 05:09 am (UTC)From:There’s a roller rink in our town, a few years ago we went for a kid’s bday party there they had a bunch of strobe lights going. They said they were tied into the ‘light show’ and couldn’t turn them off. Left after a half hour with a migraine and didn’t go back.
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Date: 2018-12-18 08:20 am (UTC)From: