Not too l8 to sk8
Jul. 10th, 2004 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4First, thanks:
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k425 for M&S vouchers which arrived yesterday -- I posted the figurines (and the weird many-sided die for oldbloke) today, sorry I've taken so long to get round to it.
- And huge thanks tormc28 who voluntarily went to the trouble of picking up my phone from work and delivering it to me last night! You really didn't have to but I'm very grateful. Karma++. :-)
Second, I have been buying neat stuff:
I bought a GIANT BADGER for just £1.99 in the Red Cross shop. It's a pyjama-case in the shape of a badger, about 2ft long and with scary eyebrows. At night he will sit on the other pillow and scare off nightmares for me, and in the daytime he will keep my pyjamas happily undigested in his stomach. The man in the Red Cross tried to sell it to me for just a pound but it definitely said on the sign that 'medium' toys were a pound and 'large' ones were £1.99, and a two-foot badger is definitely 'large'. The chap seemed disproportionately grateful that I was choosing to pay the right price. People are funny sometimes.
I also bought a pair of Bauer inline skates for £3.99 in the Burleigh Street Oxfam! I mean... BAUERS! In my size! For under a fiver!! ... Okay, for those who are looking baffled now, let me explain. When I was in my early teens, my friends in the village -- bestest-friend-Sylvia, and Matt-from-the-pub, and Miles and Mark who were both rather cute really -- used to go rollerskating. They all had Bauers, serious -- and expensive -- inline skates with proper bearings and all kinds of neat accessories ... and I had pink-and-blue-and-white girly rollerboots. They didn't quite have Barbie embossed on them, but it was close. It was like having a Raleigh Princess when all your mates had BMXs. (Oh, hang on, I did have a Raleigh Princess when all my mates had BMXs. Hmph.) Anyway, eventually I got some cheap inline skates but they Just Weren't The Same; the wheels didn't roll as smoothly, and the colours were all wrong -- garish fluorescents instead of serious, scary black. To be fair to my friends, they didn't exert any peer-pressure on me to get the Right sort of skates -- they really didn't care at all. So I did go skating with them, and they didn't laugh at me, but I always felt that I'd skate so much better and feel so much better if I had the proper boots. Besides, four-square rollerboots were for girls; they were staid, balanced, sensible. Whereas Bauer blades -- well, those were boys' skates, and you could lean over as you went round corners as if you were on a motorbike. They were cool.
The funny thing is, they looked like serious bits of equipment when I was younger. Now they look like plastic toys for kids. But the wheels still go like greased lightning. :-) Now I just need to find somewhere I can skate without getting laughed at by small children...
- To
k425 for M&S vouchers which arrived yesterday -- I posted the figurines (and the weird many-sided die for oldbloke) today, sorry I've taken so long to get round to it.- And huge thanks to
rmc28 who voluntarily went to the trouble of picking up my phone from work and delivering it to me last night! You really didn't have to but I'm very grateful. Karma++. :-)Second, I have been buying neat stuff:
I bought a GIANT BADGER for just £1.99 in the Red Cross shop. It's a pyjama-case in the shape of a badger, about 2ft long and with scary eyebrows. At night he will sit on the other pillow and scare off nightmares for me, and in the daytime he will keep my pyjamas happily undigested in his stomach. The man in the Red Cross tried to sell it to me for just a pound but it definitely said on the sign that 'medium' toys were a pound and 'large' ones were £1.99, and a two-foot badger is definitely 'large'. The chap seemed disproportionately grateful that I was choosing to pay the right price. People are funny sometimes.
I also bought a pair of Bauer inline skates for £3.99 in the Burleigh Street Oxfam! I mean... BAUERS! In my size! For under a fiver!! ... Okay, for those who are looking baffled now, let me explain. When I was in my early teens, my friends in the village -- bestest-friend-Sylvia, and Matt-from-the-pub, and Miles and Mark who were both rather cute really -- used to go rollerskating. They all had Bauers, serious -- and expensive -- inline skates with proper bearings and all kinds of neat accessories ... and I had pink-and-blue-and-white girly rollerboots. They didn't quite have Barbie embossed on them, but it was close. It was like having a Raleigh Princess when all your mates had BMXs. (Oh, hang on, I did have a Raleigh Princess when all my mates had BMXs. Hmph.) Anyway, eventually I got some cheap inline skates but they Just Weren't The Same; the wheels didn't roll as smoothly, and the colours were all wrong -- garish fluorescents instead of serious, scary black. To be fair to my friends, they didn't exert any peer-pressure on me to get the Right sort of skates -- they really didn't care at all. So I did go skating with them, and they didn't laugh at me, but I always felt that I'd skate so much better and feel so much better if I had the proper boots. Besides, four-square rollerboots were for girls; they were staid, balanced, sensible. Whereas Bauer blades -- well, those were boys' skates, and you could lean over as you went round corners as if you were on a motorbike. They were cool.
The funny thing is, they looked like serious bits of equipment when I was younger. Now they look like plastic toys for kids. But the wheels still go like greased lightning. :-) Now I just need to find somewhere I can skate without getting laughed at by small children...
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Date: 2004-07-10 10:45 am (UTC)And I still have girly four-square rollerboots.
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Date: 2004-07-10 10:48 am (UTC)You up for late-night car-park skating next time I'm in Poxford?
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Date: 2004-07-10 01:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 05:14 pm (UTC)What's the Sainsburys round the corner from you like? Or, actually, can you get into the pub-next-door carpark after hours?
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Date: 2004-07-11 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 11:13 am (UTC)The Beehive centre car park is also good on Sunday evenings in summer.
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Date: 2004-07-10 12:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 01:02 pm (UTC)- A *ducking and running*
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Date: 2004-07-10 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-10 02:41 pm (UTC)Been meaning to get them again ever since I moved to a town, and especially since I moved to my current flat, as there's no hills around it, but I've got the same worries about getting laughed at, as it seems to be something for under-15s round here. One day I'll do it, though :-)
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Date: 2004-07-21 03:12 am (UTC)Inline skating was always my favourite of the X Games, too, simply because they could spin further; they could do mad 1260s - possibly a 1440? - whereas the bikers maxed out at 900s and Tony Hawk did a 900 on a skateboard once.