Skate King
For whatever
reason you want to revisit middle school, do it at Skate King. But you have to
go all the way to Bellevue
to go back in your little time machine. This roller skating ring is pretty
typical. The rug has that sweet smell of vomit, piss, popcorn and gum. The old
dude that gives you skates makes sexist jokes that are actually kinda funny.
And the Michael Jackson songs are just too perfect to skate around with your
loved one. The typical stage, with young kids falling over themselves and
too-cool-for-school teens showing off their in-lines, makes for entertainment
in itself. But to really enjoy your experience you have to get out there and
skate around and around and around, and then in the opposite direction when the
DJ says it's okay to do so. Then after you work up a sweat, spend $20 trying to
get a shitty stuffed animal in the claw game and you've got yourself a night
you’ll never forget, and never quite wash out of your jeans.
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