100 Confessions: Goths and Ice Skating

(78) For a short amount of time, I operated under the revelation that goths were huge ice skating fans.

Here's the story:

Mimi and I were living in Florida. There's a bit of a shortage of ice skating in Florida. So we found a local place that did it and decided to make a date out of it. So we went to a local diner we'd wanted to try then put on our coats and headed over the ice skating rink. When we got out of the car, I noticed the parking lot was full...but....

It was really odd how many goths were there. They were seated in long lines along the sidewalk, smoking at their car, etc. The were dressed in all black, dark eye shadow (girls and boys alike), facial piercings, bright red lipstick (just girls) and very poky hair. I was really confused. But Mimi and I felt like we learned something new.

Greg: "So goths are really into ice skating..."
Mimi: "I guess its cold so it keeps your makeup from running..."

We opened up the doors to the ice skating rink and were blasted with death metal music. The rink was shut down for a One Night ONLY performance of "Vampires and Ice Cream." They were using a lot of bad words and talking about killing kittens so Mimi and I decided it wasn't for us.

So we didn't get to ice skate. Alas.