tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80525667441196277082024-03-18T21:53:31.018-07:00Girlfriends Guide to Dating a RollerbladerGirlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-29229468832461644102013-11-08T21:25:00.001-08:002013-11-08T21:25:53.056-08:00Laziness<br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Your rollerblader can be and most likely will be one
of the most lazy people that you have ever met in some respects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, whenever there is anything that
involves skating, they are the most motivated individual that you have ever met
in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can be half passed
out and if anything to do with another skater or anything to do with skating,
you would think that they just had a shot of B12 right to the jugular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no stopping them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, it’s
their valium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skating, the hopes of
skating, or the act of skating… it’s their speed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I have gone with them skating on many occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, it started by me being really curious
about what the hell they do all day long. Then it became somewhat of a
necessity when we would go out of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, here it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wake up, watch
skate video, go get something to eat, you might have to go pick up someone ~
its pretty much guaranteed they have a video they have never seen or haven’t
seen in a while, go to skate spot, get kicked out, go to next skate spot, by
this time they have been skating for 2 hours… and you have to pee… to damned
bad, you are somewhere in the middle of the ghetto and have no idea where the
hell a gas station is… more skating, yes! Gas station to get something to drink
and you can pee, skating, someone breaks something so if you are near someone’s
house go there to fix it, watch a video, go skate, get something to eat, go to
someone’s house to recreate tricks, drink a beer, and watch 2-3 skate video’s.
It’s now between <st1:time hour="2" minute="0" w:st="on">2-3am</st1:time>. So,
when it’s a new girlfriend of a rollerblader they get excited about spending
the day with them while they are skating, they often ask me if I am going to go
with them, my response is after 13 years, I have already done my time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Take for example, they spend so many hours watching
skate videos, getting their skates ready, changing frame, wheels, bearings… it
can take hours for them to be ready to skate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But when you are going on a skate trip and you take 2 minutes to go pee
they act like you have just done something completely horrible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you ready yet?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s taking so long?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need to go now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok, well, I will be waiting in the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are you bothering to brush your hair or
teeth… are you putting on make-up or something? We are just going skating. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-8153284646150903982013-11-08T21:18:00.003-08:002013-11-08T21:18:44.831-08:00Skate video's and porno's<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For several reasons skate videos and porno’s are
similar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You find burned versions all over the house. Sometimes they are in strange places like a drawer in the bureau. </span>They have some weird names that
make you go hmmmm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They get your
rollerblader “pumped”, ready for some crazy action, doing some stupid stuff, there
is always really crappy acting unless you’re Rob G and a talking bench.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they are going for something serious it
comes out being ridiculous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You randomly
wake up in the middle of the night and your Rollerblader is watching it on the
computer with headphones on… Shall I go on?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Do not be surprised when you are watching a movie or a
tv show with a rollerblader and they totally miss the whole plotline of the
movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This would be due to the fact
that the whole time they are fantasizing about the skate spots that they see in
the background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t worry, there might
be some lady with an awesome ass, they saw that and took notes, but feel some
sense of peace that what they are really fixated on is not the ass that now you’re
self conscious and jealous of but more of that rail/ledge in the
background!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are also thinking about
the line they could do at that spot… I personally love it when you’re watching
a bad ass Kung Fu movie they start talking about how the actor would be such a
badass on rollerblades, and then fantasize about that for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember being in a movie theater and
hearing all my rollerblader’s talk about how much of a bad ass Tony Ja would be
on rollerblades and how he would have “killed it” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">All of the rollerbladers that I know have a similar
lifelong dream...their lifelong dreams always include building a skate park,
usually in their back yard. You can be asking them anything and you say, “what
do you want?” you could be talking about for dinner and they say “a skate park
in my backyard.” Ok, well, that is an exaggeration but out of a group of people
the majority wants to have a skate park. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve thought about this a lot because I, for a
fleeting moment, thought… this is a great idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My rollerblader doesn’t have a lot of time and if he wants to skate, it
would be cool if he could go in the backyard for a while and then go to
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">After deeper contemplation, I am pretty sure that
unless your house is sound proof you will pretty much hate this idea with time.
They will be skating 24/7 which will be ok because you will know where they are
and that they aren’t getting arrested for trespassing but I also think that at
some point in your life, you’d want to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I don’t know… to everything there are pro’s and con’s
but I guess it’s all where you are in your life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>years
ago, my ass would be out there with a damn hammer and some screws building
whatever they hell you guys wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They always taste salty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very apparent when they are skating and
cruise past you and give you a really wet, salty kiss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s one of those things where when you kiss
them and they taste like they have just rolled around in salt or just spent the
day swimming in the ocean. That would be because of the massive amounts of
sweat that they have lost through skating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you question this… just look at their hats!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, don’t tell me you have never
noticed that they have a black hat with a weird ass white line zig-zagged
around the whole thing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-29639215553743481082013-11-08T20:36:00.002-08:002013-11-08T20:36:09.030-08:00Their ideas
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Their Ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They come up with the most random ideas ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can be building a house together and ask them
about if/ how they’d like to construct a storage closet and they are speechless…
they have no input in it what-so-ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ask them about storage in the garage and they look at you like you’re
speaking Portuguese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mention something about skating and they are a
regular Albert Einstein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guy can’t
add or remember his zip code but damn he can build a perfect rail, box, or
anything you can think of… unless it’s practical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I do love their ideas, I must say!.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oneday they decided they would gather massive
amounts of cardboard so that they could paint flames on them and put them up
next to the rail so that it looked like they were skating through fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They constructed p-rail’s and boxes that
would blow your mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Focused brain power
for something they love = extraordinary outcomes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Kinda like when it comes to them giving directions,
they identify people by their skates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Someone will say, “you know John, right?”,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“John? Who’s John?” “He’s the kid with the
Valo’s.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh yea, John! He’s sick! I’ve
often have been with my Rollerblader in other cities or states and he was
chosen to be a judge… Why they don’t choose me is a mystery… I mean come on…
who wouldn’t want to hear me scream that was an awesome alley oop left side
backslide piss stance? Regardless… when he’s been judging a competition… Where
he and another judge aren’t <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>quite sure
of all the people’s names and there has been a sheet of paper where they are
taking notes that say black shirt Asian kid with Deshi’s, Black shirt Asian kid
with Xsjado’s, white guy with black shirt and Deshi’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is one of the few things I understand
because it’s logical and makes sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I used to sell shoes and could look at a person and
know what brand of shoes they were wearing and approximately know how much they
spent on them, same idea but much more meaningful… If you’re a true girlfriend
of a rollerblader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If your rollerblader, or one of his friends, has been
sitting somewhere… don’t sit in that spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you have been sitting on your couch talking to everyone, watching
them recreate the days skate tricks or whatever, get up and go to the bathroom,
and return to find your seat taken and another one open… Do not sit there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You seriously are better off sitting on the
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason for this is when you
sit in the open spot, you’ll get wet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
can not tell you how many times this has happened to me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While you go pee there is a change of places
and if you sit in the open spot, your back and ass will be wet!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most likely you’ll smell like ass because,
let’s face it, their swamp ass leaked all over the place!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know about you but I’d rather go do
laundry, clean the kitchen, or sit my happy ass on the hardwood floor then have
someone’s ass sweat all over me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Be ready to hear that your new boyfriend was raped...
that means that he fell on the rail and it smashed him in the butthole. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard someone scream that my rollerblader “GOT
RAPED!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excuse me?!? He came wobbling
back to me and said, “Ouch! My butthole!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Since I heard phrases like that… I decided to use my
own… My frequently used word has been <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“sportfucked”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s mine! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when they say,
“So and so sportfucked that rail” It means that they did some really awesome
trick on it and killed it… They fucked that rail up! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jealousy will destroy you! I could say that you will always lose when it comes to skating but that's not fair and it isn't even about that. I've heard people say that they don't get to spend enough time with their rollerblader or why is he skating on his day off when we could be together? Let's think about this for a minute... why would someone go out and do something that makes him feel alive, is part of who he is, and be with his friends doing something that he loves when he could sit at home on his day off and watch tv with you? Hmmm... I don't know but that seems pretty obvious to me. I don't hear him bitching about you going and getting your nails done. Just breath... know that your rollerblader is with you for a
reason. They want to be with you but you may never hear that, you probably won't hear that from most men... It's kind of a given. Also, know you
are the most important person to them but rollerblading is the most important
thing to them. Once you have acknowledged and accepted that you two will have a
happy future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I would like to clarify something and tell you that it is
not only skating and skate related activities that your rollerblader may suffer
from a time warp. As far as video games the whole time warp thing applies here
as well. Oh and if they lose to you repeatedly they will be very upset. It is
possible that they will be a much worse winner than they are as a loser. I have
witnessed on several occasions these same people with ADD/ADHD become so
addicted to a video game, much like they are towards skating that they will
stay up all night and do nothing for days except play the video game until they
beat it. After they beat it they might continue to play it simply because they
have not gotten everything in the game or they want to get a higher score. This
could also be because they are planning on playing this game with one of their
friends and they have to be the best.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-80230094534625289732013-11-08T19:33:00.002-08:002013-11-08T19:33:48.262-08:00Quality time<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If they are spending a lot of time with you, this is not
only because they are missing you and want to spend time with you. It could
mean that in a few days they will be telling you that they are going far away
for about 3 days to Kentucky or Chicago and they will return say one and a half
weeks later... remember, I warned you about the whole time warp. The time warp
can translate into days if they are with skating friends that they have not
seen in a while. My rollerblader left to go to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chicago</st1:place></st1:city> on Thursday night and said he would
be home on Sunday night. He came home the next Saturday. I mean there were some
extenuating circumstances but without those circumstances he would have been
home on Friday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did I happen to
mention that we were moving into our new house that weekend?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No worries though, I was spastic but all the
Rollerbladers came to the rescue… It’s amazing what free pizza and beer can
motivate people to do!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Don’t have light colored sheets. Or make sure that you
like to wash sheets frequently. You really would rather not see the blood
stains from their day of skating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
be advised of the fact that they could just jump in bed around <st1:time hour="3" minute="0" w:st="on">3-5am</st1:time> after a full day of sweaty
skating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Christmas I got nice fancy
cream colored sheets. Of course within the first week he had busted his shins
open and there were blood stains everywhere. This really grossed me out because
we had been sleeping on dark colored sheets for the past 5 ½ years and I really
had not thought about it at all. Maybe I had but had pushed it into my
subconscious you know to protect myself. With that said I still think that I
will go back to my trusty old forest green sheets. You know, out of sight out
of mind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This is also a phenomenon that is shared by most
rollerbladers and yet just another thing that I do not understand. Do not be
surprised when your super hygienic boyfriend, not mine, goes out skating for the day, their hands are black or bloody, they come home
and eat something that requires using their hands like pizza, hotdogs, french
fries, or chicken nuggets and then sometime later for some stupid ass reason
they will notice that they have black hands seem a little shocked and will go
and wash them but really what is the point? They have already eaten all that
crap. I mean how can you eat when you have black or bloody hands and not notice
it? That must be the caveman ancestry coming out in them. That is a good point,
there is a lot of times that they may revert back into their original state and
start banging on things...me man you Sheila <o:p></o:p></span><br />
Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-1389913340482529532013-08-16T00:12:00.002-07:002013-08-16T00:12:55.560-07:00RIT Dye<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah yes, the RIT dying parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your rollerblader might have discovered the
wonder of dying his skates and skate parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This can quickly turn into a RIT party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dangerous in the fact that you have boiling water, drunken skaters and
permanent dye… a lethal mixture... all running loose in your house<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, it
is likely that you will experience one of these parties at some point in
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will all get together and dye
wheels, boots, cuffs, frames etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thought that they bought certain skates because of the color not inspite of the
color, but hey… what do I know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
a reason that I am only the girlfriend of a rollerblader. The one that makes sure there is a cheap, enormous stock pot, one whose sole purpose is for the RIT party.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Regardless, what will end up happening is
drunken rollerbladers up all night making a royal mess that only they are
capable of making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will get up in
the morning to go to work and find newspaper soaking wet with dye and skate
parts on top of this paper. These things
will be stuck to your stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You may also find your sink or strainer is full of wheels. </span>In addition
to that little mess, you will find RIT dye EVERYWHERE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am talking on the floor, all over the
counter, the ceiling anywhere you can think of you will find tiny colored
spots scattered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fun part is, you spend a little bit of time before
work doing a some cleaning and feel pretty impressed that with a little bleach you have
saved your kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just wait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the next month you will find the tiniest spots in the most random of places and regardless of how thorough you
think you were, there will be more. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-8978029508160246702013-08-16T00:05:00.001-07:002013-08-16T00:05:45.346-07:00Wax and your carWhen you think about it, it really goes without saying and is pretty obvious. However, it's not really something that you think about when you go somewhere, unless you get wet from sitting in the seat. <br />
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It's kind of a guarantee that if your car has been skating there is wax, it's somewhere, it's hiding, and it can be a disaster. Common sense tells you that when a candle is lit it melts all over everything. Common sense also tells you that you don't drive around with candles in your car, just know that now it's pretty much a given that it is somewhere. The problem is that you don't know how much is somewhere and if you find a sliver you might think I got it! Unbeknownst to you, that sliver just broke off of a much larger piece that's on the opposite side of your car somewhere. <br />
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We've lived in South Carolina and in Florida where your car is 150+ degrees. My rollerblader is really good about getting the wax out of my car in general but there have been times when its melted into the floor board, on cd's, on my seat belt, in my cup holder... wherever. <br />
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Our friend, Jason K., had a pretty brilliant solution to that problem. He'd take a huge sheet of paraffin wax, melt it down in a pot, and pour it into paper cups. That way when they'd go skating they could just peel the top section off the paper cup, use the wax, put it in the cup holder, and pretty much contain the wax melting disaster. <br />
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You can kinda gauge how big of a wax fan your rollerblader is by the candles that go missing in your house. If you start missing a lot of candles then start checking your car.Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-80917002531452932172013-08-15T23:54:00.004-07:002013-08-15T23:54:40.281-07:00When your car goes on a skate adventure
<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If they take your car skating you should be aware of a
couple of things. First of all there will most likely be no gas in your car. This is
because they probably got home somewhere around 3 to 5am and they are so tired that it completely
escapes them that you have to be at work at <st1:time hour="8" minute="0" w:st="on">8am and you have not left extra time to go get gas</st1:time>. To be safe just anticipate that this will happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, if your car was the primary car used in the trip out of town and all around town, the
smell will be horrific be very careful when you open your trunk or car door
because you will be knocked out from the smell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Also, be aware of the fact that there will be many random items in the
car so just do a quick check to be sure. Learn from my mistakes that have included part of a subway sandwich that had meat, cheese, mayo on it that I was unaware of and left to fester in the
heat. The things that you will learn to care less about are the bags of chips, nuts, or seeds that have exploded everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If they indeed did get home around 5 and you work at 8 it is quite likely that the seats
will be wet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best thing I can tell
you here is to bring a towel with you so you don't go to work with a wet back and ass and have a garbage bag because subway
leftovers that fester in the sun or have been locked up in your car are really
rank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Also, don’t forget to look for
wax, it is somewhere and it's going to melt. </span>Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-7431627794194787912013-08-15T23:17:00.001-07:002013-08-15T23:17:22.291-07:00Attempting to take pictures and filmDon't. Just don't. That is unless you are one of those people that are great with a camera. I thought I was because I can take a nice picture, I figured how hard is it to video something, I have two hands and can hold a camera. <br />
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So when he's said I really want some pictures or to get some clips... I eagerly volunteer. What happens is I can't guess what trick he's going to do, if he tells me I nod my head like I have a clue. He says "ready?" Hell yea I'm ready! I take the picture and without fail it's a picture of him mid air jumping onto the rail. It's a picture where you can't see his feet. It's a picture where you can't tell what he's doing. Or on the very rare occasion it has the potential to be an awesome picture and he falls. Adjust camera settings, he directs you where to stand, and inevitably you take 80 pictures and 3 are ok. <br />
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The same goes for filming. If you're really interested in filming for him, it's best if you learn to skate so you can follow the lines and can kinda figure out what he's going to do. It doesn't work if you try to run alongside them because if you're as graceful as I am, you'll run right into something. So, generally the commentary that friends would add into my filming are "oh look, he's far away, he's doing something, now there's a close up of his back, he went over something, is now doing something, and... did he fall?"<br />
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Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-5464377443924670102013-08-15T23:05:00.001-07:002013-08-15T23:05:41.577-07:00Age does not matterRollerblading is one of those things where age doesn't matter. Unless you're looking at it from the perspective of people that have had several injuries and banged up their body to the point that they aren't able to skate as much.<br />
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I'm talking about how people in general stay within their age groups because people are at similar points of their life and are able to do the same things. Rollerbladers vary so much in age and a tight crew can consist of people from 15 to mid 30's. People outside of the rollerblading culture sometimes think why the hell is this 30 year old hanging out with a child. The answer for a rollerblader is simple, they love to skate and it brings them happiness or they are amazing and they have fun skating together.<br />
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I remember being in and then later out of college and going with my rollerblader to pick up some kids that were really nice, fun people that shared a love of rollerblading. That's all it takes. We would go meet their parents, they would see that we were responsible people and would take care of their kids, and they'd send us on our way. <br />
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The two drawbacks were when we'd all go to a skate spot that had rails and they were too short to jump on the rail and all attempts to help them launch onto it failed and they'd get pissed and not want to talk to anyone until we went to a spot that they could skate. The second drawback is when you had to have them home by 10:00 so they could go to school in the morning, they'd all get sucked into a time warp and you return them home by 2:00 am and you felt like you were in as much trouble as they were. <br />
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Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-36845123450366270112013-08-15T22:54:00.000-07:002013-08-15T22:54:18.978-07:00Are you dancing? Having a seizure? What's going on here?
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moment they will bust out skate maneuvers on the flat ground no matter where
you may be at the given time. They may try to come up with excuses or ignore the fact that you're staring at them like they have lost their mind but they are planning out what tricks they are going to
try during their next session. They may appear to be, and cover it up by saying they are dancing poorly but they
are not...trust me. They don’t even realize it most times, at least I don’t
think so because they become oblivious to the outside world when they get lost in their head while thinking about skating and I think their body just naturally follows without realizing</span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I've been standing at a hostess booth at a fairly nice restaurant and he's just started doing stalls on the stairs, spinning around like a maniac, or grinding on
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Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-22195238039608268202012-05-28T15:37:00.003-07:002012-05-28T15:37:59.818-07:00Never Met a StrangerOne of the things that never ceases to amaze me is how rollerbladers generally form an instant bond. If you move to a new town, encourage your rollerblader to go skating, chances are when he comes home you already have a new group of friends. Fort Myers, Florida was a perfect example. We knew people from our work but my rollerblader went to the skate park and we had a huge, amazing group of friends. He went skating with them during the day and unfortunately had to work at night so I went out partying with them. <br />
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It's also amazing to me that you can post something on be-mag to the effect that you're going to be in town, looking for people to skate with, just want to meet some good people, and those that would normally be strangers to you open up their home and let you in. I know I've been a part of that phenomenon. It's as if the one fundamental similarity of sharing in the rollerblading culture makes you a friend.<br />
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I am always also amazed at the diversity within the population... ages, races, religions, education levels, backgrounds... people with seemingly nothing in common, no thread to hold them together, but all are bound together with the rollerblading culture. Make no mistakes about it, it's not just a hobby, something active for them to do, an obession... it truly is a culture. <br />
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I remember standing on our balcony and saying we look like a Benetton add. If you're younger this means nothing to you. If you remember those commercials their marketing was based on "the united colors" The commercials were for a clothing store but they had people from every color under the sun represented and they would stand together, hold hands, or some other type of We Are The World stuff. At that moment in time, without ever realizing it until that moment, I was standing with all of our friends - An Asian (student), African America (Business Major), Colombian (Military), Caucasian (Medical Doctor), Hispanic (Service Industry), Puerto Rican (Customer Service Support), Czech Republic (Artist) and thought, "If it wasn't for rollerblading, I wouldn't know these people" Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8052566744119627708.post-24370768323116176412012-05-28T15:06:00.001-07:002012-05-28T15:06:59.784-07:00The Loss of Favorite SpotsIt's always nice when your rollerblader finds a spot that they love to skate and is safe because it never gets busted. You know that you never have to worry about them getting messed with by cops and they always come home in a great mood because they love that spot. Occassionally, they will lose that spot.<br />
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So many people loved the Strom Thurmond building! This place had perfect ledges, was sort of hidden off the street, and I also appreciated the fact there was a water hose because South Carolina in the middle of August was ridiculous. Enough so that the newspaper heading one year was "Columbia, the screen door to hell" true story. Years of love and good times were taken away when they increased security. It went from hours of skating to when you walk up to the building and are holding your skates they kick you out. <br />
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I think there are random, covert, skate operations in the works where they'll all bust out of nowhere at some ridiculous hour just so they can feel the ledges again. I almost have the visual of Prayer of the Rollerboys in my head without the trench coats... I hope. <br />
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If it's not a place where they can or need to increase security, they could potentially cap it. Good news, the plastic ones sometimes they can sometimes pop off. This I don't understand at all. If people are so worried about preserving things then why the hell do they cap it? So you have a ledge that is getting a little warn or chunked by skateboarders... your solution is to put these hideous caps every foot? In your attempts to preserve history or the architecture you make it hideous and render it useless? Could it be that these ledges are also a part of rollerblading history? Girlfriends Guide to Dating a Rollerbladerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04443493933121845144noreply@blogger.com0