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Originally posted by Haunted
When I was little, we used to go to skating rinks for birthdays. They had this drink called a Suicide... it was all the most caffeinated beverages except Jolt.
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Ah, now there's an authentic memory. Here in Los Angeles there was a roller rink (this is in the late 70's) which has been gone for a couple of years now--they turned it into a furniture store recently and I've been wanting to go in to see if I could "feel" the roller rink. But yeah, they did the same thing with the soft drinks, the mixture had the same name, and it was Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Root Beer, Dr. Pepper and maybe something else, all mixed together in a big cup. I think it only came in the large size because of the kind of drink it was...I remember seeing "Suicide.......$1.00" up on the wall.
I only went there once, on a special trip with my schoolmates, and I couldn't skate worth a bean, kept falling over on my ass. And falls on roller skates are really nasty, because you have no control, your feet rapidly slide out from under you and WHAM, down you go. On the sound system they were playing Kiss' disco album, DYNASTY, and Cheap Trick. Just a little reminiscing.