[cactusjack]

I learned to skateboard on the metal wheels too. Damn near jarred your fillings loose on a rough road. Eventually graduated to urethanes. Back then, about as adventurous as we got was going down the long, wide steps in front of the elementary school. The neighborhood I grew up in had no sidewalks, so you had to ride the asphalt.

In the wintertime, when there would be a good coating of ice on the roads we would go "hickeybobbing" or "skitching" as I believe it's known in other parts of the country. Hang onto a car bumper and they'd pull you on your shoe soles. It was great fun until you hit a dry patch of road and did a face plant.