[SkateDC] Halloween Skate report

[Carl Ford]

   Yes, you read that correctly, there was an impromptu Halloween skate.

   Immediately after I sent the email to the list, I received a call  
from someone who was on the way to DC and wanted to know about the  
skate.  Since they were already going and it was not was not raining  
at the time, I figured "what the heck", as I was already close to  
downtown.  So one person in a Skate Patrol costume and one skater in a  
French maid costume did the skate.

   It did sprinkle several times along the way, but we hit all of the  
planned routes.  Highlights included trick-or-treating a beer and a  
glass of wine from friends of mine on Capitol Hill, skating through  
the Hawk and Dove bar on Pennsylvania Avenue, and having fun with the  
crowd in Georgetown.

   I hope no one feels faked out by the fact that two of us actually  
had a skate.  It was a spur-of-the moment thing, and my bearings have  
a certain squeak from ten miles on wet streets. 

   --
Carl Ford
ford at dcaccess.net

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-Mark Twain, Note to the Young People's Society, Greenpoint  
Presbyterian Church,
1901