Stupid kids on wheely heelies

[Lace Neil Singer]

Dunno if everyone knows what these are, but basically they're these trainers with wheels in the heels that all the brats are wearing round here. There have been so many cases of kids knocking down displays, or cannoning into elderly or disabled customers, or leaving nasty black marks on the floor, that wheely heelies are now banned from the store.

Which of course means that you tell a customer who's demon spawn is wearing them that they are not allowed to let their kid in wearing them, or they must walk on them and not wheel. And you can guess what customers say to that.

[Imogene]

Does anyone else want to just stick out a leg as these stupid kids roll by?
You have legs, moron. America's fat enough already.

[South Texan]

I have thought of them as irritating, but chalked that up to me getting old and ornery toward “those damn kids and their new fangled stuff”. In my youth, it was loud disco music (long live the 8-track!) that set older adults on edge.

I never considered the damage those wheelie things might do on the feet of stupid people.

[gundam40]

I know what you're talking about, I HATE those things! Kids here are always wheeling around in them, running into people, things, displays, you name it.

I don't know how these things work, but the thing is, kids have to keep their heels down and the toes up, or else the wheels don't pop out, so you have kids with their foot in weird positions all the time... must be REEEEEAAAL good for their bodies

[Lulu]

oh I hate those things!! They keep knocking over little old ladies with them in the shopping centre cos the kids seem to have zero control over their own feet when wearing them...which...actually...can be quite funny The kids going splat I mean not the little old ladies

[KaeZoo]

Is it really so unreasonable to ask that people use their shoes for WALKING when they're in a place of business?

[draftermatt]

I saw a girl with those in Wal-Mart next to her mom. I think I said so she could hear "I can't believe she lets her kid do that in a store"

My mother would have whipped my ass for that.

[Ryu]

we rip on those all the time at the movie theater
especially when people practice using them so much they can dgo stylish stuff, its cool looking but its kinda sad at the same time
they fall on their butts a fair amount of the time

[Lace Neil Singer]

We've also banned kids on skateboards and bikes. Don't mind them carrying skateboards or pushing bikes, but some moronic kids were actually cyclying and boarding thruout the store. Idiots, it's a supermarket not a playground.

[0oAmericanGirl]

Those things are awful, I see kids using those all over the hospital. I with they'd ban them from there as that's a bit dangerous. What parent would allow their kids to use them in a hospital? Guess they figure if the brat falls that they're not too far from medical attention.

[Fera Festiva]

Ugh, I bloody hate those things.

We actually sold them when I worked at Claire's, as well as those weird little miniature skateboards (like, why is that fun?). Kids would take them right out of the window displays and start showing off their lameass tricks to their friends. In a store which was more or less the size of a shoebox. Needless to say, there was scrunchie-and-earring-based carnage. We stopped selling them pretty quickly.

[CreepyCarrie]

I...hate...heelies.

My younger brother has a pair and he wears (and uses) them EVERYWHERE. My mom (a notorious sucky customer) even allowed him to wear them in a buffet restaurant the other day and he was running into people all over the place. It was so embarrassing.

[ArenaBoy]

I hate those things too. I've seen kids use them in a busy parking lot and they have a high chance of being hit.

[MystyGlyttyr]

I've noticed those things are really unstable. A box of pencils thrown at just the right moment is enough to send kids scraping across the floor on their face.

(*cough*Wedon'tadvocateviolencebutboyisitfun*cough *)

[Dreamstalker]

Watching kids on the MBTA trains can be much amusement. Even funnier is when they try to "subway surf" (keeping one's balance without holding on to or touching anything) wearing them. One would think that footwear with wheels on a platform that itself is moving and tends to stop suddenly is a bad idea.

I saw a pack of brats with them on the T yesterday and I swear the driver took the fairly sharp curve at Boylston Station harder than neccessary because of them