Friday April 11, 2008
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Friday April 11, 2008 | Skate: Fail! | Hockey |
Long, long, ago, I used to play roller hockey with Joe, Rama and Will. We played in the parking lots between Sun's Mountain View buildings (now all Google buildings). Eventually I moved to ice hockey and hadn't touched the roller gear in years. This week my wife's cousin needed a sub on his roller hockey team. Not wanting to break my ankle trying to do an ice stop, I laced up the old pair and headed down the street with my dog running along side. I took a few test turns, and then *snap* - I was on my butt. Fortunately, it was not my ankle, but the skate itself. The entire bottom half of the skate just broke off. It was a cheap, plastic boot, not leather, and I guess we now know the lifespan of a cheap roller hockey skate.
The good news is I had two pairs of skates (outdoors and indoors) so I was still able to play since the game was indoors.
Tags: fail hockey roller skate
April 11, 2008 03:05 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [2] |
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Comments:
sweet jebus, you're lucky to be unharmed. have those skates baked in the trunk for a few months or something? why were they so brittle?
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