You know you skate too much when...

[cbskater]

you practice in a dress and tights (a rarity for me) and realize on the way home from the rink that you need something from Home Depot... and honestly consider running in "just for a minute" in said dress.  (For the record, I didn't, but it was really, really hard not to do it.)

Hah! I work at Home Depot & that would be a refreshing change from some of the other customers that we get! Some not only look really grungy, they smell that way too!

[Loops]

you practice in a dress and tights (a rarity for me) and realize on the way home from the rink that you need something from Home Depot... and honestly consider running in "just for a minute" in said dress.  (For the record, I didn't, but it was really, really hard not to do it.)

I would have. I routinely go grocery shopping straight after skating...and I don't change.

[dlbritton]

I am more upset about having to replace my skates that were in my car that was just stolen than I am about having to replace my car.

[AgnesNitt]

I am more upset about having to replace my skates that were in my car that was just stolen than I am about having to replace my car.

IT's harder to replace your skates than a car. I've bought a car in 45 mins. Skates, I have to get measured, then wait 3 months, then pick them up with new blades, then spend 3-4 week breaking them in.

[ChristyRN]

I am more upset about having to replace my skates that were in my car that was just stolen than I am about having to replace my car.

Well that s****. Cops have any leads yet?

[JSM]

I am more upset about having to replace my skates that were in my car that was just stolen than I am about having to replace my car.

Oh no, that's awful!  I do know what you mean.  My skates are worth more than my current vehicle, and would take months to replace.  It's a skater's nightmare to get their skates stolen!

[dlbritton]

Well that s****. Cops have any leads yet?

No leads. I figure it went straight to a chop-shop. I mean, who steals a 19 year old car except for parts. I was in a parking lot full of nice BMWs and Mercedes but all of them have chip immobilizers now so mine was easy pickings I guess. Still mighty brazen to steal a car in the middle of the afternoon from the employee parking lot at city hall. Unfortunately no cameras in the lot.

[rd350]

Awful!

My skates are worth more than my car too.

[karne]

you practice in a dress and tights (a rarity for me) and realize on the way home from the rink that you need something from Home Depot... and honestly consider running in "just for a minute" in said dress.  (For the record, I didn't, but it was really, really hard not to do it.)

Filled the car with fuel once in my bright green skating skirt and a tank top.

In my defence, I'd just come out of practice and it was 35C.

[karne]

I am more upset about having to replace my skates that were in my car that was just stolen than I am about having to replace my car.

That sucks big

Worst part is they've either chop-shopped it as you say, or they've flogged the guts out of it then set it on fire somewhere. Either way your skates are probably in a bin somewhere or burned into a melted puddle.

[fsk8r]

Filled the car with fuel once in my bright green skating skirt and a tank top.

In my defence, I'd just come out of practice and it was 35C.

I used to do this regularly.
It was when I went for dinner in skating dress, with office trouser over the top (to be fair it was next door to the rink) and a strange woman came up to me and asked me if my 4 year old had dressed me. It did make me think twice about doing it again (although I put her down as very rude cos who comments to a perfect stranger on what they're wearing?!).

It didn't stop me driving in skating skirts. That stopped after I was involved in a major car accident and was stuck with police, fire and ambulance crews. I was there apologising for my dress, saying I didn't always go out like that. The policeman was like, it's OK madam, we've seen it all before...

[riley876]

LOL, great stories!

I simply wouldn't feel comfortable skating in any clothes that I wouldn't be happy to be generally seen out in public in.   Skating is "out in public" too as far as I'm concerned.

[Neverdull44]

 You take a shower both before and after you skate, because you have to feel beautiful on the ice.  (And, you can't be beautiful if you sweated in the summer heat).

[rd350]

Haha!  I keep wanting to put a skirt over my skate pants but I don't have the nerve yet.... maybe when I skate a bit better.

[Meli]

Post-competition tonight, mom and I went to dinner (we didn't leave the rink until 9), and I had forgotten to bring the change of clothes (still conveniently on the bed at home), so skating dress, tights, and hot pink running shoes it was.  Hunger won over potential shame.

[aussieskater]

That's high fashion, meli!  Hope dinner was good.

[AgnesNitt]

You count the hours you skate so you can schedule your next sharpening.

[riley876]

... you watch freestyle skiing and you can't help but say "sigh, two footed landing" after every triple inverted double flipped quadruple spiralled helicopter jump.

[AgnesNitt]

You regard youTube and Wikipedia as basically figure skating sites that the rest of the world is allowed to use for less important reasons.

[skategeek]

...you (the college professor) tell your husband (the high school teacher) that you can't wait for September.  Because adult public sessions start up again.

[Meli]

...when you determine what day it is based on which rink you skated at... and get confused trying to remember if it's Friday or Saturday because you skated at the "wrong" one.

[skategeek]

You know you skate too much when 95% of the Pokemon you've caught have been at the rink.

[riley876]

You know you skate just the right amount, when you spend so much time skating that you don't have time to even have a look at the lastest pop trends. 

[skategeek]

You know you skate too much when you spot a dime on the floor by the bench and your first thought is not "I'm rich!" but rather "I'd better move that before someone trashes their blade on it."

[tstop4me]

Yeah, the beginning of the new year is a good trigger to reflect on this topic.

You know you skate too much when you are a male in his 60's and

(a) You read a forum thread on "Keeping warm in a skirt", and you think, "That's an intriguing thermal transfer problem."

(b) You read a forum thread on "Skating while being well endowed in the chest", and you think, "How does a substantially axially-asymmetric load distribution affect a forward scratch spin?"

(c) Some of your most supportive, comforting, and endearing friends are 7 - 14 yr old girls.