So earlier today I was at the rink practicing for my next test, when I stepped off into the hockey box to grab my water and chat with my friend for a moment when Fatty Kerrigan is skating by. Now, anyone who goes ice skating knows that rental skates are usually pretty crappy, and ours still look fairly new, but are clearly broken in. Fatty Kerrigan is easily 250 pounds, most likely a tumblrina, wearing way too tight jeans, a way too tight shirt, and a long flowy vest, and was probably around 5 feet tall, give or take a couple inches. She's on rental figure skates, and the right one is just bowing majorly at the ankle, to the point that regardless of weight, I have to say something to her (because no one wants to see someone break an ankle on the ice, and I just witnessed a woman hit her head so hard she left a pool of blood on the ice where she was laying last week so....). I look at her and said "Hey, you're going to want to get your skates switched out for a different pair, your right skate is bowing in at the ankle and it's not helping you stay up straight." And my friend chimes in "Yeah, no one would have strong enough ankles to keep themselves up in that boot, and right now yours could lead to a broken ankle."
Fatty Kerrigan then proceeds to fall to the ground (how, I don't know, she barely shuffled forward), and then says "I can't get up. It's cold" to her friend with her and crawl to the wall. She then exclaims "See! It's not me afterall! It's the skates!"
Fatty Kerrigan never went to switch out her skates, rather, she continued to wear the broken ones that could have lead to a broken ankle (I don't care, I did my part) because it was an excuse for the fact she could barely stand up.
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[–] iammeandyouareme [S] ago
It was fun explaining fat logic to my friend. She had looked at me and said "Why the hell would she not go switch out her skates? Why is she blaming the skates for her inability to stay upright?" and I said "Simple. Fat logic. Better to blame the equipment rather than take responsibility for the fact that her weight is causing her ankle to bend sideways in the skates. We did our part, she can go fail now."
The funny thing is there is a girl I know who is just like this, except she's skinny. But she blames her inability to skate well on everything but her lack of practice. She lives in such a state of delusion that she simply cannot be a bad skater. She can barely jump (she's been skating about as long as me, mind you), and cannot do crossovers because her skates aren't right (she barely can do a forward edge). It's almost comical to watch and listen to, but then it gets obnoxious because she asks everyone else if it's her skates. She's convinced I beat her in competition because I used "skating music" (a song from Ice Castles) for my program, not because I'm a better skater. On paper she and I are the same level. On ice is a completely different story.