Topical Guide 175
Mark Dorset
Sports and Pastimes: Roller Skating
The door was loose on its hinges. The girl at the ticket counter was chewing gum and reading a comic book. Veronica’s mother passed a card to the girl, and the girl cut a notch out of it with a conductor’s punch. Then she looked at me. I had brought ninety-five cents with me. … I was able to push my ninety-five cents at the girl with some confidence …
“What is this for?” asked the girl.
“Rent skates,” I said. “And skate for an hour.”
“Oh, that’s just right,” she said. “It comes to ninety-five cents.”
“Yeah, I know,” I said, relieved, pretending a familiarity with roller-skating that I did not have, hoping that the girl would assume that I frequented other, larger, more glamorous roller-skating rinks …Little Follies, “Take the Long Way Home”
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