It's really strange that one of my favorite past times as a child is now one of my son's favorite things to do... hanging out at the skating rink on Friday/Saturday nights. I vividly remember the many many hours spent at the Cleburne skating rink. No worries, no parents, only my friends and the music. Joellen (my most amazing bestest friend in the whole wide world) and I both have so many memories and I am so lucky to have them to share with her. It was so much fun skating around flirting with the boys, buying No Doz from the snack bar, and mixing "suicides" at the drink bar. Not to mention the many lock ins there and getting my first hickey from a boy during one of the movies played on the huge projector screen on the rink floor. Not proud of this but kids will be kids. Crazy times!
Now, my sweet, innocent, lovable little man is hanging out there with his friends. It is a lot different these days though. Fortunately there are no longer lock ins, the crowd is a lot younger, and there are lots of adult employees and parents hanging around. Not to mention, the owner is very aware of what goes on. He pays close attention to who comes and goes and what kids belong to what parents. The front door is always locked and cannot be opened without him doing it. I am all for kids having their freedom and being "kids" but I am thankful that there are safer precautions these days. Of course there are still the girls there asking the boys to couple skate, wanting to be girlfriend/boyfriend, lots of talk of who is cute and who isn't, but it's all very light and fun and innocent.
I was standing there last night looking for my son and his friends to round them up to head home and I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw two cute girls skate by. One was a tall blonde and the other a shorter brunette. They say history repeats itself and those two girls were definitely Joellen and I reincarnated. Thinking about it again brings a tear to my eye. Good times!
4 comments:
That is so funny and so scary at the same time! Who would've imagined that one day we would be watching our kids go through the same things we did! We knew it would happen but when it does it is still so strange cause it seems like yesterday that we were that age! When the heck did we grow up?!! Time has just flown by, but so many good memories!
Yes, the skating rink was the beginning of the end for a lot of us!! I remember very well the night I fell in love with George Micheal- Wham at the time- at a skating rink lock-in lol. Of course back then skate covers (did you guys have those)were the in thing and inlines hadn't even been invented. What fun!! Can you imagine when our boys think back 20 years on their skating rink memories.....
well season this is the first time i heard about your first hickey it's been 17 yrs what else have you not told me!! never mind i don't need to know(ha ha) annie
Annie - I knew you would say something about the hickey :) Being 15 of course I was going to hide it. Like I said, kids being kids, nothing serious. Glad you finally found my blog!
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