I wanna share this story with you, It just cracked me up, I was walking from work to the hotel and there’s this beautiful path that goes through some trees, by a lake, where I see people cross country skiing across it, as well as an ice rink, It’s just a beautiful walk, a great way to end the workday.
Anyways as I was walking, I passed by a man I would venture a guess age wise to be between 70 to 80 years, he had a grocery bag hanging off his hockey stick that was slung over his shoulder. I say hello to him as I pass by expecting him to say hello back or nod and then us continuing on our way, he doesn’t though, he stops and says to me all proud looking “I’m going skating,” I reply “that’s awesome, skating is so much fun. I love skating.” He looks at me and he says “do you wanna come?” before I had a chance to reply that I don’t have any skates. He realizes that fact and says questioningly to me, and he says “oh! I have an idea how about I give you one skate and I take the other skate and we can skate around together on one skate each!”
Now let’s imagine this scenario, we would go down to the ice, he would put on one of his skates and I would put on the other of his skates, so here we would be, he would be on one balancing trying to skate around, and I would be on the other balancing trying to skate around. Now, if that is not a full picture, let’s add in the fact that he has a hockey stick, but I in fact, do not have a hockey stick so here we would be both of us balancing on one skate trying to get down the rink to the net with one skate and one hockey stick . How would we go? How would we win the game? How would we even really play? He’d have to take a shot then slide his hockey stick on the ice for me to get where I could shoot and then slide the hockey stick back to him all the while trying to stay upright on one skate.
As awesome as that visual sounded, I declined the invitation to go skating on one of his skates, he was quite disappointed, but I wished him well and continued on my walk with a huge smile on my face, and a giggle in my voice, can just you imagine!