Kids with Roller-Skates in Shoes

[Cronos]

I know this may make me sound older than I am, but am I the only one that thinks putting a retractable roller-wheel in kids' sneakers is a REALLY bad idea? Especially since these kids will do this everywhere: in crowded areas like stores, in malls, in the street, etc. and it seems like a really haphazard and dangerous thing to give kids as young as 5 or 6(by my estimates)?

Has anyone else been almost collided into by kiddies sliding all over the place in those things?

[haltz]

I'm surprised that fad hasn't died. I haven't been around many kids in the last few years, but I remember them outlawing those at my high school, I think.

I don't really have a problem with it, and I don't have a problem with the normal kids throwing sticks in front of the kids with wheels on their shoes.

[Bo Hart]

One time at work, some kid was cruising through the aisles and just as I was reaching an intersection, he crashed into me.

It delivered a borderline fatal blow to me.

[heyzeus]

My only problem with them is that I wish they had them when I was a kid.

[TabascoElvis]

My kids have them but they're not allowed to wear them anywhere outside the house and around the neighborhood. They lose them if they wear them in stores, school, etc.

And I'm a little jealous too. They're pretty slick and I'd never be able to do it.

[BigCat]

Every time I see these kids in public I just want to push them...and most of them care less who they run into or who they run over in their path of destruction. I dont know how many times I have seen children just wandering around wild in the mall with these shoes on and its like their parents just dont give a crap, as long as they are entertained I guess. It really erks the crap out of me and I really do want to push these kids...not to hurt them...but to scare the absolute crap out of them (push them while they are wearing the shoes) and hopefully they go so fast and out of control that they never wear them again.

[jimedmondsfan]

Ok, I am going to date myself here--but were we any better with our "clackers"? two glass balls on the end of a string with a washer in the middle, so you could slam the glass balls together and make noise?

How about roller skates? Skate boards? If we had had big ole malls around when I was a kid you don't think every kid in town would have been roller skating through it?

Every generation of kids has a fad that parents (and anyone older than 12) hates! It will go away next year and something worse will take its place!

[cardinalkarp]

How about roller skates? Skate boards? If we had had big ole malls around when I was a kid you don't think every kid in town would have been roller skating through it?

We had roller skates, skate boards and big malls when I was a kid and never once would I have thought that it was ok to mix them together.

[JCShutout]

I wish they had them when I was a kid.

Skating is an excellent sport/hobby. Kids learn balance (body-kineticism intelligence) and physics. I used to be less clumsy on ice skates (even on dry land) than with my normal feet.

[docellis]

I want a pair of these things.