Ice Skating

Y'wanna guhh't Donny Duhm?

Doncaster Dome (Donny Duuuhhhhm in local parlance) is a leisure centre in South Yorkshire with an ice rink that has slopes somehow, and every kid within a thirty mile radius has been there at least fifteen million times. I went there roughly once every four hours.

The PE teachers at school took us once. A gang of teenagers on a night out with their teachers at the dome. Insanely cool. The PE teachers were those “we’re not like proper teachers, we’re cool and laid back, we don’t give a shit” types who all shared a house together, which at the time I thought was extremely weird. Grown men sharing a house? Grown teachers sharing a house?? In hindsight they were probably about 22. Children, basically. Childmen.

Anyway, one of them fell over on the ice and just sort of let the ice ramp take him, scraping his face all the way down to the bottom.

He looked like this:

He didn’t try to stop or right himself once.