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   rusty gate said, 11 months ago

   Took my son to the new skateboard park in town a few years ago. He’d been there 10 minutes, and we spent the next 4 hrs. in ER after breaking his arm in those 10 minutes.
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   templo SUD said, 11 months ago

   I’ve a feeling those skates are Gordon’s; his mother is making him get rid of them.
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   amaryllis2 said, 11 months ago

   One pair of skates, two kids trying them, two kids’ broken arms. Been there been the mom to that.
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   bluskies said, 11 months ago

   When I was a kid, kid skates were clamp-ons. One size fits all. They came with a skate key to adjust the length to the kid’s shoe size and tighten the front clamps to the toe of the shoe. Took a bit of skill to use ’em with sneakers.
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   onetrack0246 said, 11 months ago

   I’m w/bluskies, same for me
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   onetrack0246 said, 11 months ago

   the key we wore around our neck on a chain..AHHH the good ole days for sure
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   Gator007 said, 11 months ago

   My daughter fell and cut her chin down to the bone.
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   tagteam said, 11 months ago

   @bluskies

   …then we would separate the halves of the skate and nail them to a 2 foot section of 2X4 to make our own skateboards!
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   psychlady said, 11 months ago

   Hope that’s not a premonition!
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    chasches said, 11 months ago

    @tagteam

    been there, done that, got the roadrash to prove it
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    kevindix said, 11 months ago

    I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates, you’ve got a brand new key, I think that we should get together and try them out to see…
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    hcr1985 said, 11 months ago

    Relax, Elly…the kid was probably doing something stupid, something that began with the words “Hey guys, watch this!!!”
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    hippogriff said, 11 months ago

    We would take the rubber pad out of the front wheels – gave it a better turning radius. One saved getting hit by a car because of it. Who cared about the slight increase in noise and vibration.
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    lightenup said, 11 months ago

    Broken bones could happen with anything. I’ve never broken a bone, but both my kids have. One was at a birthday party where she was jumping around and landed on her foot wrong, and the other involved Cinderella slippers and the stairs.
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    William Pflum said, 11 months ago

    @lightenup

    You got that right, my middle daughter broke her arm at my parents during Thanksgiving while playing in the back room running into the dryer while playing with her sisters. The youngest daughter broke her forearm by jumping off the swing and falling face first to the ground with both arms out to stop her fall. She has a very high pain tolerance so we didn’t even realize it was broke until a day later when she was still having pain. Took her to the hospital for an xray and the xray tech was amazed how little pain she showed with the amount of fracture there was.
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