When I was about seven or eight years old, a lot of kids my age liked to roller skate. Of course, I wanted that too, because, of course, I didn't want to be left behind. After a lot of whining, I finally got roller skates. Not that nice one, like in the attached photo and in the Dolly Dots video clip, in retrospect, but good thing I didn't get them. Or maybe a shame, because maybe I could have roller skated better thanks to the better support of those skates. We're not going to find out, because I'm not going to do that again. I'm not going to say never, because I'll soon realize at the age of 80 that I would like to roller skate on these kind of roller skates anyway, although it's hoped that I'll have people around me who will stop me, say it's too dangerous at that age and that I can break my bones. But that aside.
Back to the roller skates I finally got. It was those roller skates that you had to tie under your shoes and then you could go roller skating. Of course, you had to secure the roller skates properly under your shoes, otherwise the roller skates would take off without you. Which, in retrospect, I didn't even mind, but that aside. Anyway, I also got those roller skates and they were securely secured under my shoes. And off I went. After trying countless times and falling countless times, I threw the roller skates in the bottom of a closet at the skipper boarding school, where I was at the time, and never looked back. Hopefully, other children still enjoyed it. At least it was clear then that roller skating is not for me. As beautifully and well as others can do, I didn't succeed, even though they still gave so many great tips on how to stand on roller skates and how to move, none of that helped. I kept falling and rolling in the wrong direction. Fortunately, you didn't have smartphones, TikTok and YouTube at the time, otherwise videos of the stunts would probably have been made and posted online, and I'm sure I wouldn't have been happy about that, to say the least. Maybe in about twenty years, I won't care what others think, but luckily we're not going to find out.

I just skipped skating, which became a hype years later. You don't have to want to participate in all the hypes.

Were you good at roller skating?


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Roller skates