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From: jack@cca.UUCP (Jack Orenstein)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: skating
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 10:04:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 10:04:59 1985
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   I was also going to suggest skating as an alternative to dancing but
only if you're in college.
   I (ice) skated 2 or 3 times a week in college and grad school.
There were two kinds of skaters. The people who did it for fun and the
people who were real serious about it (I suppose they were there for fun
too, but it sure didn't show). Members of each type had hours in the
rink set aside for them. (I'm ignoring hockey players who got the most
ice-time.) I was somewhere in between - if I had to choose, I'd say 
I was there for fun, but I did go to both kinds of sessions.
   Since going off to the real world, skating hasn't been the same.
Wherever I go I seem to run into "serious" ice rinks. You know the type.
Full of spoiled 6-year old future anorexics with their stage mothers,
ice queens (of both sexes) who really believe they can skate,
couples gliding around in formation, all this accompanied by the most
awful music that even K-Tel wouldn't touch. This is true even during the hours
in which these rinks open their doors to the riff-raff (i.e. not members of
the club).
   Conclusion: The McGill University skating rink is (or was) a great place
to go after 32 hours in front of a terminal - good music (you can even bring
your own tapes), fun people, no oppressive supervision. Other than that,
I haven't found any good rinks. Of course, that doesn't mean they don't
exist. Does anyone know of a good rink in the Boston area?

Jack Orenstein



My employers couldn't care less about ice skating and almost certainly
have no opinion on this.