[SkateDC] Halloween Skate report

[Carl Ford]

   Actually, it was three hours.  We finished at 10:15. Quoting Bill  
English <english60 at yahoo.com>:

> Carl,
>
> It seems like something was missing from the skate report. Did you   
> spend two hours alone with a man in a French maid costume?
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Carl Ford <ford at dcaccess.net>
> To: skate at skatedc.org
> Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 8:45:27 AM
> Subject: [SkateDC] Halloween Skate report
>
>
>
>   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
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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