roller skating

the disco thread got me remembering the roller skating rink, when i was in middle school.

did anyone else spend every friday night at the skating rink? it was pretty much the only unsupervised place to hang out, when you were 13. haha. good times.

 

omg yes...evey friday...i didnt rollerskate though ...i inline skated...i loved that place...


me and my friends would whave a contest to see who would fall the least...i always won cuz i never fall...

 

roller blades were just becoming the standard around the time that i stopped going. i never learned how to roller blade, and i actually wasn't a very good roller skater. i mostly went to shoot the shit, and talk to boys.i fell all the time. my main problem was that instead of learning how to use the brakes, i just ran into stuff to stop. (like the wall, or my friend )

 

i live like 5 seconds away from my roller skating rink...i can see it from my house...

i loved the chese fries at my rink.,they where so good

and i spent alot of time at the airhocky table they had there...i would play for quarters...

 

we used to eat those sour straw things (red candy tubes, covered in sour stuff. anyone remember em?) we'd eat TONS of them.

 

I grew up out in the sticks in Oregon. We didn't have a roller skating rink.

 

When I recently visited my hometown 'Roll On America' had been converted to a flee market

Guess the hokey pokey days on skates for that town are through

 

anti, you were deprived. the skating rink was the shit. where did you hang out and do stuff you weren't supposed to do in middle school?

 

the hokie pokie was the best part...it was funny to watch someone put there right skate in and then fall down!!!

 

You know, when I saw that 'Roll On America' had passed, I wept a tear for the DJ - that man truly loved his job.

 

I hung out at my house reading. At that age I had no friends anyway, so even if there had been a place to hang out, I wouldn't have been there. I've always been a loner. The only place I would ever go was into the mountains, to the river, or to the ocean.

 

"couple skate" was pretty funny too. everyone had to scramble around and try to find someone that was willing to skate with them. then, once you couple skated with someone, you were expected to make out with them later. what a joke.

 

definitely not a joke - I can remember a rather fond place in the corner behind the Miss Pacman machine one particular saturday

 

hahahahahah dhs *wink wink nudge nudge*

 

I used to go all the time in middle school. It was the best make-out spot and the bathrooms always smelled like cigs.

 

i also used to go to" rock n' bowl" at my local bowling allys on fridays...u could get "ANY" drug u wanted there...but i never bought anything

 

I remeber rock n bowl. That was fun too. There were always sleazy guys in their late twenties trying to pick u on teen girls. Some of them were pretty cute though.

 

im an awesome bowler ...my highest score was 230 ...that pretty good

i loved to dance at rock n' bowl too...fun times

 

that is a pretty good score! I went when I was probobly 13-15 and it was when the macarena was in. I would get older guys to buy me beer and than we would all be drunk doing the macarena...yeah

 

Haha. I remember when I was 11 or something, I went on a double date with my best friend and this other guy Daniel, whom I liked more than my boyfriend! Haha. But anyways, we went, the boy (bobby) that I was with fell in the bathroom, got all wet and started yelling at me and crying. So I took my only water and poured it over my head.....

Then it was a slow song and I just left the table to play games and then he chased after me and dragged me out there.

Haha. And in first grade this other boy tried to impress me by trying to skate backwards. Awww. How cute! Haha.

Good memories. And I still go there! Haha, and I'm in highschool, but I love it.