Hell on Heeleys
Just when I thought I’d made myself clear why kids shouldn’t be allowed to wear heelys in grocery stores, I bumped into a kid - literally - wearing them at the movie theater today. At the movies!
Now, just to clarify something I said earlier, I do see a time and a place for wearing such things. They’re fine at the park, they’re fine on the sidewalk, they’re fine in an empty parking lot or even a roller rink. Basically, I think they’re great — when accompanied by appropriate safety gear — in places where rollerskating would acceptable.
Hey, were I a bit younger, a bit more resilient, and a bit more insured, I’d probably own a pair myself.
But at the movies?!
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Note to self: steer entire family clear of Kansas.
I actually adore Kansas. Heck, I insisted that VH move us back here from Hawaii! (Not that that’s saying much if you know of my later experiences in the Aloha State.)
But I have always adored rollerskating. Just not sure I can pull it off in anything that resembles a sneaker.
There are kids who wear them to our church and wheel themselves up and down the hallways. It drives me nutso.
To CHURCH?
What are their parents thinking?!
Whenever I see a kid in the store wheeling around his mother and up and down the isle with them damned shoes I say to my husband, just loud enough for the mother to hear, “There’s yet another Darwin award winner in the making.” And yes I’m aware my kids have their own Darwin Award tendencies which is exactly why I have forbidden them from having them nightmare sneakers.
Like emo kids, I find the urge to mock heelie-wearers unmercifully. Is that wrong?