barely skating by

While on vacation, I tried roller skating... and survived! I did not fall at all, but ALMOST fell from the moment I laced up the rental skates until I sat on a bench to remove them. This shot was taken by one of my kids (s1) from his cell phone.

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They do this thing, where a bunch of families go together. It's mostly moms and young children, but none of those ladies got up to hit the floor. They were having too much fun laughing at the one dad who never skated before.

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It didn't take any time at all, before the kids started to join hands and make a long human whip. I was precariously teetering along, near the wall, when the kid at the end shouted, "Mr. Craver, gimme your hand!" Ha!! Do I look like some kind of suicidal lemming to you? No, Missie... I earned these few gray hairs by NOT having young whippersnappers (Good choice of words, eh?), fling me to a certain demise with such recklessness. No, I'll stay vertical, thank-you-very-much. The human body was not meant to go that fast without being in some kind of protective cage.

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Do you skate? Are the rental skates made that uncomfortable on purpose? If it was planned that way, then I think it's a clever idea, because no one in their right mind would wear that kind of torture for the fun of it.

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The important thing is... I never fell. Winner!