Dry Run

[mj_notes]

Let's say you had a 95 degree Sunday afternoon in August, and you wanted to do something with it.  What would you do with it?
A) Go to the pool?
B) Stay indoors and sleep?
C) Go to the movies?
D) Something else I didn't list...(write-in candidate here)

How many of you thought of "Go buy ice skates in a town 90 miles away."  That's what I chose to do

Comments

[wulfgyr]

Ice skating makes me jittery... no sir, I don't like it.

Not that there's anything inherently wrong with ice skating, I just have bad memories associated with it.

The first time I went ice skating with with my friend Betsy, her roommates Andrea and FD and FD's little sister Angel. I wasn't exactly your ice skating looking guy. I showed up in a charcoal grey trenchcoat and a black Stetson whereas most of the crowd there were more "conservatively" dressed. Also along was the guy Betsy was dating and a friend of his who was 16. I was 19. Well Betsy and her boyfriend were trying to set me up with his friend who was 16. She was kind of a wild gal and kept trying to get me to skate around with her and she was pretty good at skating. And there wasn't anything wrong with her, but we just didn't have much in common so I wasn't really interested. Plus the fact that technically she was a minor and I wasn't made me a bit nervous. What's worse is FD's little sister kept looking at me all googley eyed and hanging around with me all evening and she was only 14 or 15, which made me nervous enough, but FD was all of 6'5" and 250 lbs of badass farmboy and had a reputation for being hot tempered (and it's a reputation that I had personally witnessed in action on more than one occassion).

So Ice Skating mostly reminds me of 3 hours of being incredibly nervous and it had little to do with falling down...

[mj_notes]

In my best Looney Tunes Martian imitation:Where's the Ka-Boom! There's supposed to be an earth-shattering Ka-Boom!

Here I was expecting to hear about you windmilling around on the ice while getting passed by 4-year-olds with those walker-like skating trainers!

I can see how that story would make you not enjoy the thought of skating again. If I were 19, and getting set up, etc. with 14-to-16 year olds, I'd feel really awkward too.