Skates

With back to school goes extracurricular activates. Otherwise know as – parental hell. Figure Skating starts right away and I suck so I had to go buy skates at the last minute.

We prepared our skate shopping survival kit – food, drinks, electronics and headed off.

Not a bad start – only 15 minutes until our number got called. Then began the 45 minutes of the skate fitting. They them on – walk laps around the store. Try different insoles, have the ankles punches out.

Wait for the fitting inspection so the transaction can be completed.

Then get in line to have the guards cut and fitted.

Then get in line to have them sharpened. It is suck a sickening feeling as you are sitting there having your fitting done and you watch one person after another coming in and getting their skates sharpened. Some have more than one pair. Each pair being dropped off means another 10 minutes we will have to wait for ours.

While we are waiting for the sharpening, the old skates get put on consignment, then it’s to the fitting room to try on outfits, then figure out which set of tights are the ones we need – footed, non-footed, stirrup, boot, shiny, semi-shiny, matte. Kill me know.

Pay for everything with a second mortgage.

Still a 30 min wait for the skates.

If I ever get three wishes from a Genie – I will use all three o ensure that I never had to buy another pair of skates ever again.