It’s funny what you find when you straighten up. These are
my skates…yeah that’s right I have skates. You’re not surprised are you? What
34 year old woman has pink and black skates she’s never worn, yup this girl. In
2010 I became slightly obsessed with roller derby, I think maybe that was the
year that movie came out about the girl from Juno being a roller derby girl.
Then I found out that DC actually had a roller derby league because I saw them
arm wrestling people during the H Street Festival. I started making people
accompany us to roller derby matches. I bought a fan shirt…yeah I know you
think you see where this is going.
So my friend Megan and I decided we should be roller derby
girls for Halloween. Now most people would have rented or borrowed skates but I
had a specific look I was going for. Pink and black. I got pink and black
everything; I even have a hot pink fingerless leather glove from Hot Topics to
complete the look. But the skates, the skates are key. If you’re going to put a
costume together it has got to look authentic and no roller derby girl is going
to be caught dead in someone else’s skates (Jedd shakes his head as I tell him
this). So I did what any girl would do, I poured over endless websites looking
for the perfect bad ass roller derby skates in pink and black to complete the
look.
They arrived in June of 2010…and by October I decided I
didn’t want to dress up for Halloween because dressing up was stupid. Yes
that’s right I never even took them out of the box. BTW if you’re in DC and
want a free pair of skates let me know. I tried listing them on Craigslist and
no one wanted them.
