"Heelies": Won't anyone think of the children? ;)

[Thipu1]

I find heelies extremely scary.  Last week I noticed a couple of kids using them in an icy parking lot.  Not good!

[ChristiKayAnn]

I loved those Slap Bracelets. I wish they would bring them back.

And I know guys in Heelies that are reasonably responsible, they don't heel in spaces with a lot of oldies or people in general.

So, yeh, I think it's probably the area you are in.
Dragons8

 ;)Slap Bracelets to your hearts content:
http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=search&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=button.search&Ntt=Slap+Bracelet&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&N=0&x=24&y=17
They even have plain white ones so you can design and make your own.

[Leprchn]

I'm really tempted. We didn't have light-up shoes when I was a kid and I'm jealous! Is 45 too old for this sort of thing?   

Nope, No, and Nada!!  Look, the way I see it if it makes you laugh, grin, chuckle, or feel giggly and full of fun, (and is legal) then who cares how old a person is??  If 80 year old men can leer openly at a pretty girl and get away with it, if granny's can jump out of airplanes and get on the front page of the paper, then you and I can darn well get light-up shoes and Heely's!!  If people make negative comments, tell you to act your age, just stick your tongue out and say, "But dingdangity am I having FUN!!"

If you want them, get 'em.  And have a blast of fun wearing them!

(FWIW, I still make snowmen in winter, cannonball off the dock into the lake in summer, and still swing around sign posts at the corners.  I never want it to be said I didn't enjoy life!)

ETA:  "dingdangity"?  I wrote the word meaning the big cement wall that holds back water, think Hoover!

[kathrynne]

I'm really tempted. We didn't have light-up shoes when I was a kid and I'm jealous! Is 45 too old for this sort of thing?   

Nope, No, and Nada!!  Look, the way I see it if it makes you laugh, grin, chuckle, or feel giggly and full of fun, (and is legal) then who cares how old a person is??  If 80 year old men can leer openly at a pretty girl and get away with it, if granny's can jump out of airplanes and get on the front page of the paper, then you and I can darn well get light-up shoes and Heely's!!  If people make negative comments, tell you to act your age, just stick your tongue out and say, "But dingdangity am I having FUN!!"

If you want them, get 'em.  And have a blast of fun wearing them!

(FWIW, I still make snowmen in winter, cannonball off the dock into the lake in summer, and still swing around sign posts at the corners.  I never want it to be said I didn't enjoy life!)

ETA:  "dingdangity"?  I wrote the word meaning the big cement wall that holds back water, think Hoover!

Dingdangity's pretty cool, actually.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. You're right. Besides, nobody treats me like a grown-up so why should I act like one?

One thing holding me back is the memory of the last time I was on rollerskates, taking my nephews to a roller rink. I did the involuntary splits and hurt for a week, and that was 20 years ago.