When I was a kid, the “attach to a standard shoe” were the only kinds around. Our family couldn’t afford to buy the more expensive kind with an integral shoe/skate if the child’s foot was still growing. So we clamped a skate to a leather-soled shoe and tightened it with a key.
I always thought the separate key was so the wingnut part could be made large enough to provide finger leverage, but if you didn’t allow it to detach, it would stick out too far and create a hazard. I kept my key on a ribbon around my neck, and any key fit all skates, so if a bunch of kids were skating, only one had to have a key handy.
No, see, what it was, was, that I was trying to be witty, by paraphrasing Melanie, where she sings “some people say I done all right for a girl”. Really.
turns and runs away, because 3acres has sisters and knows enough to run
I made skateboards out of mine. All I can remember about those skates were how frickin noisy they were and also how slow. At least with a skateboard you could take a running jump on it and hurt yourself.
Haha, I was just about to post that. In fact I’d never heard of the rollerskate song and until now I thought it was an original by the Wurzels. Consider ingorance fought.
…anyone finding innuendo in the original rollerskate song should find The Wurzels’ version amusing. Opening line: “I drove my tractor through your haystack last night…”
For I hope obvious reasons, I primarily associate this song with Heather Graham’s character in Boogie Nights. Don’t know if the same association is true for you, though.
