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Don’t Wear Flip Flops To A Skating Rink
Sep 21 2010

You would think that would be obvious, but half way to the roller skating rink where we attended a kid’s birthday party last weekend, I realized I was wearing flip flops.  Too late to turn back.  I had never been to the skating rink with them before, fortunately however, they both had been to Playland Skate Center before with their dad.  My son went off on his own (which surprised me a bit) skating around the rink and participating in limbo and other games.  I just kept hoping he would be OK and not get lost or have a major crash while I was with my daughter.  I can’t remember when I crossed the mental line of worrying too much about him in large, but enclosed entertainment places (e.g., Chuck E Cheese, Inflatable places, etc.) or him going to the Men’s restroom (shudder) without me nearby, but it happened in the last year or so.  I guess I finally trusted him to find his way back to me, a bad guy wouldn’t suddenly steal him, or that I would find him.  She wanted me to be near her most of the time so as she used the rail to get around the rink, I had to stand just outside and help her across some longer spots wearing my flip flops.  Needless to say both she and her brother ran into my feet a few times.  Ouch!

It has probably been a couple of decades since I had been inside a roller skating rink, and I was suddenly flooded with all those teenage roller skating party memories but this time everything seemed louder, darker, somewhat annoying, but without, as my friend in high school used to say, the teenage bullshit.  But I did observe a lot of the teenage BS because there were many teenagers there.

At any rate, I’m not sure what my point is other than I thought this blog title sounded kind of cool.   There are a lot of entrepreneurial things going on in Austin.  So much I can’t keep up with them, nor do I even have the strength, stamina, or time to blog about.  Even Austin Startup blog has slowed down its posts because the founder of that blog has a full time job.

I have hired someone to do a new blog background for me which may inspire me to change the focus of my blog a bit more.  Right now the tag line is ‘babbling about business and parenting.’  Maybe I should just change it to “writing in flip flops or bare feet and trying to survive.” 🙂

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4 Comments on “Don’t Wear Flip Flops To A Skating Rink”

  1. 1 thom singer said at 5:14 AM on September 23rd, 2010:

    I think your point is that even when you are not prepared with the right footwear…. that does not stop a real entrepreneur (or parent) from doing what they need to do! Sure your feet get run over by skates, but you do it anyway!!! That is success!!!

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  3. 3 Aruni said at 6:30 PM on September 23rd, 2010:

    @Thom – so true. You do what it takes. 🙂 Thanks for the analogy!

  4. 4 Hannah said at 1:26 PM on September 28th, 2010:

    I went to UT, and I love Austin. It’s amazing to see how well that city held up in the financial crisis.