Roller blading
I was recently given a pair of roller blades, and I used them to commute to work today. I'm not very good; I'm passable on roller skates and almost passable on ice skates, and roller blades seem to be the hardest of the three. Anyway, getting to work was no problem. I tripped on a side walk crack once, but there were no other mishaps.
Coming back was a different story. It was downhill. Mike had removed the brakes, and I don't really know how to stop roller blades without them (maybe not with them either). It was scary. I took a different route home, mostly on sidewalks through grassy areas, and kept having to go into the grass to keep from going to fast. I tried dragging a foot behind me to slow down. It worked at slower speeds, but wasn't much help the rest of the time.
Coming back was a different story. It was downhill. Mike had removed the brakes, and I don't really know how to stop roller blades without them (maybe not with them either). It was scary. I took a different route home, mostly on sidewalks through grassy areas, and kept having to go into the grass to keep from going to fast. I tried dragging a foot behind me to slow down. It worked at slower speeds, but wasn't much help the rest of the time.