I've been walking funny the past two days (or should I say funnier). I played hockey last Sunday night instead of watching the apparently hum-drum Academy Awards. Due to my recent period of sloth in which the only exercise I get is shoveling the driveway, my body is a little sore from the hour and a half skate. The aches and pains that are screaming from my "muscles" I can handle. The bleeding blisters that formed just below my ankles on both feet is what makes me want to curl up in the fetal position and bawl like a baby. I would like to thank my new skates for this pleasure. I feel like James Caan in the movie Misery after Kathy Bates puts the sledgehammer beating to his feet. The conclusion I have come to is that after only wearing them twice, they must be returned, traded-in, sold or burned. Play It Again Sports, here I come!
Update (Mar 3):
I went to National Sports, where I bought my skates, and they wouldn't take them back because I didn't have the receipt...not even a store credit because "they're skates"...whatever that means. I threw the receipt away last month after keeping it for a year. Go figure, one of the few times in my life when I "live on the edge" by throwing out a receipt and it bites me in the butt! I then took my burden (skates) to Play It Again Sports where the dude who worked there proceeded to offer me, with a straight face, and I don't know how they get these numbers, 40% of $150 in store credit. Needless to say, I still have the Mission skates, retail value $230. They did, however, have a pro-shop on premises which will fix the cracked blade on one of my old skates for $30. So, the evening wasn't a total waste of time.
If anyone is interested in Mission skates, size 9.5, write a comment. $100 or best offer!
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