Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: Skates
My most precious toy of my chilhood had to be my Flyer skates...remember those? They were metal bottoms, that were adjustable so as your foot grew you made them longer. They had a red leather ankle strap with a buckle and a red leather lace up toe piece. I spent HOURS on these up and down the pavemements out our front along with my mates, flying round like loonatics lol. If a mate didn't have any, you'd share and have one each lol, so go scooting up the pavement trying to get the longest roll out of one foot as you could. Ohhh those were the days _________________
awwwww i remember mine!! and then when roller boots came, and we had roller discos, i used to LOVE it, wednesday nights at the YMCA *sigh* _________________ An egotist has one point in his favor - he doesn't go around talking about other people!
Well because youre SO much younger than me (lol) I didn't get to get a pair of roller boots ohhhhhhhhhhh you've just reminded me, we used to go Friday nights to the corn exchange to skate in roller boots, I was a little older then perhaps 14 or 15...used to come home with the most horrific blood blisters on the balls of my feet ouchhhh lol _________________
LMAO the suffering we went through just to be cool is unbelievable! give me my granny nightie and slippers any day lol _________________ An egotist has one point in his favor - he doesn't go around talking about other people!
I remember those skates Debs - the expanding ones to fit different sized shoes and holding onto walls etc till it was mastered - good days _________________ >>>>>>>>
Hannah
Roller boots??? Lol, we just called them skates..I remember I used to go to the skating rink with my friends on Saturdays, or someone would rent the whole place for their birthday and we'd go have the parties there and skate for hours. So much fun! And then I got my rollerblades..which I was so much less good with, lol. I guess because they are in-line, instead of spread out like the other skates. _________________ Sometimes I don't think birds are really talking to each other. They are just making fun of police sirens.
-Stephanie
OH I rem the flyer skates we had one pair between 5 girls! for ever changing the sizes an the arguing whose turn it was great fun but we cheated one of us would have a bit of rope and pull the one on skates it worked well no leg work !!!! it was fun till sis pulled me down a hill went whizzing past her , didn't now how to stop fell over on the path badly grazed all down left side of face and chipped front tooth , ouch the skates got banned for a while until big brother would come out and watch we didn't use the rope again bah
i loved my roller boots ....they were blue and orange suede with massive pink rubber stoppers on the front !
i lived in them till i fell over dog one day n knocked myself out...mum wouldn't let me on em again
last year i tried my 12 year old nieces' inline skates ....helll they ain't the same ...took me forever to get used to them ....my ass was bruised forever lol _________________
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ohhhhhhhhhhh you've just reminded me, we used to go Friday nights to the corn exchange to skate in roller boots, I was a little older then perhaps 14 or 15...used to come home with the most horrific blood blisters on the balls of my feet ouchhhh lol
but you got me back with the swing in my face, cut me just by my nose and had stitches-- still have scar 