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 despite 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 in style tradition…”

It made me recall the primary time I ever had skates on my ft. I used to be teenager! After 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 need to date anybody however repeatedly discovered myself on dates anyway for quite a lot of causes.  This was one in every of them.

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

Skating

I used to be nineteen and dealing in the previous man’s bar when the chat turned to skating. Not pondering forward, not seeing it coming, I advised the folks on the bar I’d by no means been skating and I by no means had. Sound unimaginable? 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 courting vary. He mentioned that he was a skating fanatic and he instantly provided to take me to the rink. I had no real interest in going to the rink with him however the best way he did it, I’ve to confess he was easy. He snookered me. The best way he invited me made it tough (for Libra) to say, “Not with you, fucker!”  Consequently, I had myself a date.

One of many previous males requested, “Do you assume you may you skate, Elsa?”

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

“Nicely, it’s one thing it’s important 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.

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

Oh settle down. 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 getting into there. The music was  throbbing and all these individuals are whirring round within the pulsating black mild. That’s what I need 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 need to ~ROLL~ however this man was draped on me like a leech.

Did I inform him to let me go? After all!

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

“Why not?

“It’s possible you’ll get harm.”

“I’ll take my probabilities.”

“No. Elsa, you may get harm skating,” he mentioned, as if he was my guardian. “I need to deal with 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 respect have been I come from. This was unique huge metropolis stuff to me and properly, you already know what they are saying. This man might have me restrained however he doesn’t personal my thoughts.

Ignoring him the most effective 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 women and boys and the women and women skating collectively. I studied them.

I particularly centered on the babies. 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 at the least 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 notice of this and determined that I’d come again sometime and take a look at my kamikaze idea of skating. I made a decision this skating factor was undoubtedly for me, and the best way 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, after all…

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That is how I wound up, skating in curler rink, 3 times per week, by myself for a stable six months. I don’t remorse a single second of it.

Additional, quick ahead some many years. My son tells me he’s skateboarding, alone, a number of occasions per week, publish a breakup. I knew precisely what he was as much as! I additionally knew it might work!