A skatedad once came up to me in the rink parking lot and told me out of the blue "I love your guts!" (for getting out there on the ice with the kids)

Sure beats "I hate your guts."

OMG!!!

That's pretty funny. One day our favorite 50-something male figure skater was doing one of his shockingly low sit spins, and a kid and I were watching him. I mentioned that it was a really amazing sit spin and she (maybe 8 years old) said, "yeah, but, he's old."

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At a group lesson practice session (yes, I started in group lessons when I was 26) Adriana Desanctis, all of 5 at the time, skated up to me and says "are you somebody's mom or what?". All curls and attitude and so cute I cracked up. when I told her mom what she said her mom goes "well, are YOU? Too funny.

One other good one....I walked in the rink one day at 6:30am, this little blond 7 year old (came to know her after this) looks up, gets wide eyed and says "I saw you on TV last night!". Wish I knew who she thought I was. She didn't know the skaters name. Probably one of the guys......(and yes, I'm a girl).

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At a freestyle session one day, I was telling some of the kids about how excited I was about competing at one of the all adult competitions. I was telling them how I see quite a few other skaters at other events and usually a big group goes out to dinner. One of the skaters, a 11 year old then asked me "Do you guys get drunk?" . I then went on and told them that, there is some socializing, but no one get drunk.

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As a male myself, I know where you're coming from. Personally, though, I feel free to talk to kids all I want so long as we're all in plain view. I don't touch them though. A couple years ago a little girl came up to me and wanted to hold my hand, and I told her I would if her Mommy said it was okay. She did, and we became great skating buddies (all of us, including her Mom and her other skating kids).

It does help, though, if you are there all the time and people see you and get to know you. When in doubt, it's best to play it safe.

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This is my conversation with a 5-year-old skater

Little skater: How old are you?
Me: Can you guess?
Little skater: Fourteen?
Me: Fourteen? Ooh, that's so young!
Little skater: Oh, you are older than my sister?

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Aww, thats adorable.

I get the "how old are you?" question a lot at skating by the younger kids. They are usually astonished to learn that I'm 20. I remember when I was 19, a girl about 10-12 asked me how old I was, knowing the response, I asked how old she thought I was. Her response was "I don't know, 14?". I laughed and told her I was 19, almost 20. I thought she was going to have a heart attack by the look on her face!

Hmmm, you must go to different dinners than I do!

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

One day a little LTS girl kept coming up and asking me if I would coach her 'Coz you're a brilliant skater'. Another good one was a young LTS lad asking if 'Can you teach him how to do an aeroplan spin like yours?'

Personally I think 'Aeroplane Spin' would be a much better name than 'Camel Spin'!

S xxx

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A young girl pointed me out to her mates on public ice this afternoon, I presumed because I was the oldest person on the ice, then skated up to me and asked ... 'Hey mister, are you a dancer ...?'

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Today at my rink, a little girl asked her coach if she had to learn a "half nuts" (really meaning half lutz)

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I've gotten that question, too. When I was in Basic 5 group lessons, two people in my class figured out that they were in the same gym class at their middle school. Then they turned to me and asked me what grade I was in!

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Once, a few years ago, the father of one of the 16-year-old skaters gave me a ride home from the rink. He started to make conversation by "so, which school are you in?"

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I always answer that by saying I used to teach 4th grade

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A long time ago I did a waltz jump and a kid asked me if it was a triple axel. Of course I said yes There is one person in this world who thinks I did a triple axel

Okay, so that one made my day....

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Is the figure skating version of this: Skate as if you're doing an axel and not just learning how to hop?

OK, I have a few....

A few years ago one of the little boys had a crush on me because he thought I was in junior high. However, his group of friends (whom I have known for a long time) quickly informed him that I much older by saying, "she's married.....she can DRIVE!"

Ha! Love the fact that driving determines your age....

Not too long ago I was in the ladies room wearing my skating dress and putting my hair up for practice when a little girl comes up to me and says, "are you like a mom......or are you like a kid?"

Ha! I guess no one really knows what category to put an adult sketer in. Since I don't have kids yet, and I look younger than I am, and I FEEL young, I went with the kid option.

And then this one this week. I skated a public session with a friend on Sunday. When I got off the ice, a group of young teenage girls asked me, "did you used to be a figure skater?" I laughed and replied, "USED to be??? I still AM!!"

I took my sister's boyfriend's little sister to the movies the other day. she's 15. Her friend came and joined us as well. So her friend says to me "Oh yea, you can drive, you're old!" I said gee thanks, I'm only 7 years older. Talking about feeling old, my best friends little sister, who I've known since she was born, is starting college in August. I know it has nothing to do with the rink, but just reminded me.

Now back to your regularly scheduled discussion.

At Skate SF 2005 comp... I was going to the ladies room to get my competition dress on. There was this woman putting on her makeup and I asked her "so what event are you in?" She said "Pre-Bronze." So then I asked her "Oh? Me too! So which Pre-Bronze (age) group are you in? (I was scoping out to see if I had to compete against her...) She said "Pre-Bronze I and II" I said "Oh, not my group! I'm a III and in the III-V group." Still putting on her blush, she said "Oh? You sure don't look it. You look like a I." (Bless you, lady... bless you!!! I was turning 38 the very next day!!!)

Terri: "Half nuts???" I guess I'm learning a "whole nuts" then!!!

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I was teaching a six-year-old last fall who, out of the blue, asked me if I was a teenager. I told her no, I'm a little older than that. "Oh," she says, "My dad thought you were probably like in high school." I get this a lot; I'll be 26 next month but people usually guess I'm about 16. The funniest thing was that this little girl's dad was a professor at the college I went to (and graduated from!) He was within my school, too; he's one of three or four professors in that department whose class I was never in.

This didn't happen at a rink, but when I was about 20 or 21, I used to babysit occasionally for a Jewish family on my street with a four-year-old girl, who wanted to know if I had had my bat mitzvah yet (no, I'm not Jewish).

Just last week on vacation with my mom I was charged the child rate at a public session. I'm pretty sure the child rate was 14 and under

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Trust me...enjoy the savings!!! Use it towards a cheap beer or coffee or somethin' kids' wouldn't drink that you would!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

I occassionally get charged the child's rate at one of the rinks I frequent...I just politely smile and take the discount...I'm 30.

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I just turned 23, and I'm constantly being asked what high school I go to!

This one happened today: Back on the ice for the first time in awhile, I couldn't do much. So when the kids wanted to see something I explained what I was allowed to do and what I wasn't. Of course, then they all spent 15 minutes demonstrating the moves I wasn't allowed to do and asking, "So, you can't do this?"

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Tee hee hee... they have a new gal at the ticket booth today at my rink... and she asked if I was child or adult!!! I then said "Last I've checked, I'm an adult..." (*sigh* I had to be honest. Besides, one of the rink managers was overlook her shoulder and he knows who I am. And besides that I have a rep for be honest unless the staff insists on me not being honest... then it's fair game! ) The lady at the counter apologized and I said "No need to apologize! You just paid me a compliment." She said "How so?" I then showed her my driver license and told her specifically to see what my b-day is. Once she saw it she went "OOOOH!!!" , then "I see!!!" Me:

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

one day i got the biggest chuckle out of a young kid who, as i walking to the lobby w/ my skates still on and tights pulled over them, asked so innocently: "where are your skates hiding, i cant find them?" I then attempted to explain to a very perplexed little girl that the tights went over my boots, and that my skates weren't actually hiding.

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