Heath! I didn't do the roller skate thing, but, I do remember being ga ga for patent leather shoes! Those black, shiny, beautiful shoes with the heel thingy that made noises! And, we lived on a street that had a series of hills on it like a roller coaster ride............us kids with bikes would start at the top and while our parents hair stood on end, and they had heart failure we'd zoom by as fast as we could, all the way to the bottom! And, back then, I didn't own a "girl's" bike. It was an old boy's bike, just a tad too big for me, and boy, if my feet fell of the peddles.....OUCH! You guys ain't the only ones who could get injured and experience pain in that region of the body! Or, how about the "Spring Ritual"....where you were just dying to go outside with no shoes or coat on????? And, who remembers scraping the meat off their big toe, on the rough asphalt.............? And go carts? I'm old enough to remember "Prell"! LOL! Mel Brooks did a skit one time on that............Carl Reiner was interviewing him as the "Six Thousand Year Old Man", who of course was Jewish. It was hysterical! Carl asked Mel to look back at all the inventions that man has come up with in his long life and tell him which in his opinion was the greatest invention............the heart lung machine....etc. etc.....and Mel said: you guessed it: Prell! It was soooo pretty, and you drop a pearl in it and it just drifts to the bottom, and if you drop the bottle, no don't worry, it won't break! If the heart lung machine fell out of the medicine cabinet, it would smash, but not Prell!
