I wrote this astro story in 2003.  It’s humorous/uncensored, revealing, free expression. Contains swearing!  Let’s go! Yay!  It’s additionally prelude to Pining For Reuben.

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Kris mentioned she was stunned I’d not seen, Gone With The Wind.  I responded:

“Yeah, properly I by no means noticed Star Wars till twenty years after the actual fact. This regardless of having a boyfriend with a full Darth Vader costume again when the film got here out! I don’t get out a lot… however actually that is what rising up remoted with no television does to you. Don’t ask me about standard tradition…”

It made me recall the primary time I ever had skates on my toes. I used to be teenager! Once I say I’m from the desert, I imply I from the desert.

I’m nineteen on this story. I used to be heart-broken and I used to be misplaced. I didn’t wish to date anybody however repeatedly discovered myself on dates anyway for quite a lot of causes.  This was one in all them.

My entire persona is on show right here.  Venus Neptune delusion, creativeness and pretending, Mars Mercury violent thoughts, Capricorn planning, Libra and freedom-loving Jupiter in fact…

Skating

I used to be nineteen and dealing in the outdated man’s bar when the chat turned to skating. Not pondering forward, not seeing it coming, I instructed the folks on the bar I’d by no means been skating and I by no means had. Sound inconceivable? Hardly. I’m from the desert. That is half the explanation the bar was packed every day anyhow. The curious lined as much as see simply what else I didn’t know.

There was a stranger there that day, a younger man inside my relationship vary. He mentioned that he was a skating fanatic and he instantly supplied to take me to the rink. I had no real interest in going to the rink with him however the way in which he did it, I’ve to confess he was clean. He snookered me. The best way he invited me made it troublesome (for Libra) to say, “Not with you, fucker!”  Consequently, I had myself a date.

One of many outdated males requested, “Do you suppose you’ll be able to you skate, Elsa?”

“I don’t see why not,” I mentioned, as if my means to skate ought to be apparent.

“Effectively, it’s one thing it’s a must to be taught. It’s important to be taught to skate.”

“Pshaw! I can stroll can’t I? I can stroll so I can skate. I don’t see the distinction.”

It was that form of dialog happening and that weekend I went to the rink with the man.

Effectively, the very first thing to say is I didn’t kill him and I feel I ought to be credited. I didn’t even make him bleed although I imagine that I’d have been justified if I had.

Oh relax. I don’t imply stab him. Simply stomp his ankle with my skate or one thing and right here is why:

I used to be there to be mesmerized. That they had disco lights entering into there. The music was  throbbing and all these individuals are whirring round within the pulsating black mild. That’s what I wish to do too, however guess what? I couldn’t. I couldn’t as a result of this bastard wouldn’t let go of me. He was going to show me to skate, see.  And he’s going to do it together with his arm round me, generally each arms and his leg alongside and touching mine from my hip to my skate.

Are you getting the image? I wish to ~ROLL~ however this man was draped on me like a leech.

Did I inform him to let me go? In fact!

“However I don’t need you to fall.” He mentioned.

“Why not?

“You might get damage.”

“I’ll take my possibilities.”

“No. Elsa, you will get damage skating,” he mentioned, as if he was my mother or father. “I wish to maintain you.”

Oh brother. I do hate having to be well mannered however you already know I’ve that damned Libra, so what occurs is I spend the following two hours with leech boy hanging on, in awe and barely jealous of people that skate by me and skate properly.

That is again when folks danced on skates and there have been loads of them doing simply that and I used to be fascinated. It’s important to recognize have been I come from. This was unique huge metropolis stuff to me and properly, you already know what they are saying. This man could have me restrained however he doesn’t personal my thoughts.

Ignoring him the very best that I might, I acquired form of excessive watching the array of skaters. The dancing skaters, the backwards skaters, the little children crouched down cannonball fashion, the ladies and boys and the ladies and ladies skating collectively. I studied them.

I particularly centered on the young children. How the hell can they skate so properly I puzzled, as I walked across the rink with my date hanging on me. After which I figured it out, or no less than I assumed I did. Eureka!

I made a decision they skated so properly as a result of they have been fearless. They weren’t fearful about embarrassing themselves. They weren’t fearful about splitting their pants or breaking a leg and lacking work or one thing like that.

I took word of this and determined that I’d come again sometime and take a look at my kamikaze concept of skating. I made a decision this skating factor was positively for me, and the way in which to be taught to skate was full bore.

This determined, I put up with Leech, coping by telling myself that he was not going to get laid, no means, no how, whereas smiling at him prettily, in fact…

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That is how I wound up, skating in curler rink, thrice per week, by myself for a stable six months. I don’t remorse a single second of it.

Additional, quick ahead some a long time. My son tells me he’s skateboarding, alone, a number of occasions per week, put up a breakup. I knew precisely what he was as much as! I additionally knew it will work!