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unbibiumI took a different route home today, one where there was a down-sloping parking lot. I thought "my Heelys will zip me through super-fast!" And they did.
The thing about heelys is, to stop them, you have to turn your glide into a run, as you would run in normal shoes, so that you could stop in the same manner. And this becomes problematic when, thanks to the incline, you are skating faster than you can run.
Even more problematic when you don't exactly have the whole thing down gracefully.
So now my hand is wrapped in gauze, thanks to the nice ladies at the office building I stopped into, though similar scraped on my elbow and knees went unattended until I stumbled home.
No permanent damage, and if I'm feeling better in 20 minutes I can still catch the two buses to the meetup. (update: well, it took longer than that for me to find the first-aid kit at home and change the bandage... better take it easy.)
The thing about heelys is, to stop them, you have to turn your glide into a run, as you would run in normal shoes, so that you could stop in the same manner. And this becomes problematic when, thanks to the incline, you are skating faster than you can run.
Even more problematic when you don't exactly have the whole thing down gracefully.
So now my hand is wrapped in gauze, thanks to the nice ladies at the office building I stopped into, though similar scraped on my elbow and knees went unattended until I stumbled home.
No permanent damage, and if I'm feeling better in 20 minutes I can still catch the two buses to the meetup. (update: well, it took longer than that for me to find the first-aid kit at home and change the bandage... better take it easy.)
