Comments on: Epic Win: Old Square Scooters From Gym Class

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:01:27 +0000

I actually did knock a kids tooth out using these. The gym teacher thought it would be a good idea to have us play basketball on them. He thought it would be a good idea to go for a jump shot. Good times.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:09 +0000

6th grade i ended up in a 12-kid pile up, 3 of us needed stitches (including me) and another kid broke his leg. A couple months later we played hockey and a girl broke 2 fingers. then they banned them forever.

By: sasha

sasha — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:23:50 +0000

my schools always had these tucked away in the equipment room but we never EVER got to use them, wonder why

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:19:13 +0000

We played Mission Impossible… 2 teams split on opposites ends of the gym. Each team recieved 1 scooter, 3-4 rubber dots, etc… You had to get all your team across to the other end without touching the ground or the group would start all over. You could also scoot over and steal your enemies pieces… BEST game!

By: KEARGLE

KEARGLE — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:25:48 +0000

IIII REEMEMBER THESSSEEEE
we used them in mission impossible, where you had to get to the other side of the gym without touching the ground.
the scooter kids would grab like… SOMething and pull themselves along the floor ahead of everyone to claim the matts for our team.

OH GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES.

By: tasteslikecanadian

tasteslikecanadian — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:23:39 +0000

We found a couple of them in one of the auditoriums at my university. They’re still awesome.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:17:32 +0000

I had completely forgotten about these! We used to use them to play a soccer-type game. Ah, thanks for bringing back the memories of my favorite gym classes…

By: Big Mike

Big Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:29:32 +0000

Flat ones? That had to suck. Ours had a little impression for your butt and handles on them. They were also almost triangle shaped. The thing listed here is used for moving furniture, not for kids to play with.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:40:38 +0000

My daughter’s school still does this, it’s called “Scooter City”. The kids wait all year for Scooter City! They added a “car wash” where the teacher would spray the kids with squirt guns. Good times!

By: billyjean

billyjean — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:31:50 +0000

does anyone remember the ones that had like handlebars that you turned side to side to get it to move?

By: Someone Else

Someone Else — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:08:48 +0000

Holy crap! those thing were the best we always had races and played dodgeball on those things at my school

By: That Guy

That Guy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:57:50 +0000

Our shenanigans ended with a broken arm…. actually two. (We were slow learners.)

By: not so retro

not so retro — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:56:05 +0000

We still have these at our school!!! (its total welfare though so, ya)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:49:38 +0000

omg… dude. I so remember these!! they were awesome!!

By: random

random — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:04:06 +0000

I’m surprised I never got injured, mangled, had clothes/hair caught in one of these things as a kid…

I loved playing with these things in gym class, although they forced us to sit on our butts instead of our stomachs, (which was more fun IMO). I remember playing with these things up until high school.

By: Cheese1

Cheese1 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:19:46 +0000

oh my god! the only toy in the world where it was so much fun getting hurt! these things were a blast!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:43:56 +0000

Lol, I stole one of them from the Gym in school, laid on my stomach on one of those, raised my feet, my buddies grabbed my feet and started pushing frantically. One thing about our school, we had stair cases and landings in between the 1st and 2nd floor where a nice flimsy glass display case could be set. My asshole buddies flung me down the stairs, and i shot the thing out from underneath me fast like before launch. In the process of breaking an arm and my jaw hitting the stairs on the way down, i shattered the display case and came within inches of a fallen piece of plate glass coming down vertically which would have done some extremely serious damage. My dad got arrested for beating the hell out of the prinicpal and gym teacher for even having these things around. See you in 3 more years dad, and thanks!

By: jenna

jenna — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:07:23 +0000

well im 13 and we actually still use these in my middleschool!

By: Jessy

Jessy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:10:37 +0000

I remember these things though we never really played with them. The most i saw them used for was by the janitors. They’d put their trashcans on them and wheel them around.

By: AMAZED

AMAZED — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:11:43 +0000

DUDE WE TOTALY JUST USED THESE LIKE LAST WEEK DDD:

By: k

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:51:49 +0000

oh my god, our teacher made us do the exact same thing. ugh I can still remember the pain of all the scraped knees.

By: KC

KC — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:42:46 +0000

When I was in elementary school, we got to play Quidditch on these things during P.E.!!

We also had these triangular ones that you didn’t have to push; just move the handle bars and they went forward.

Good times …

By: Asorel

Asorel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:57:54 +0000

when i was in 1st grade (five years ago), my younger bro and i had a game we’d play. one of us would grab a jump rope, and the other guy would sit down on the scooter and scream like hell as the other guy pulled him.

By: vampfeind687

vampfeind687 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:23:50 +0000

i work for an office furniture store, we have these things for delivering desks and other big pieces of furniture. so much fun to play with still.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:50:36 +0000

we were playing a soccer game with them, with one of those giant dodge balls, and this larger kid Skoryk thrusted off his scooter to kick it, missed, and when he came back down, the scooter cracked in half. The CRACK put the room in silence, then a volume of laughter I’ve never heard before.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:28:41 +0000

nah they still have them at my school… just with handles.

By: Brielle

Brielle — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:52:37 +0000

Dude. Been there. It sucked so bad. I had to go up to the nurse, runny nose and crying so she could cut a chunk of my hair out. Ouch.

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:41:51 +0000

OMG! I remember playin’ scooter hockey in middle school. Ours were plastic. Can’t say I ever rolled over any body parts, though.

And we still have the wooden ones at the middle school I work at… Used ‘em to move some stuff a couple summers ago.

By: crazydevil2525

crazydevil2525 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:41:13 +0000

Oh my God i used to love these things!! I remember rolling across my elementary school gym and always crushing my fingers lol

By: nerdboy20950

nerdboy20950 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:44:35 +0000

In my school, all they used them for was to wheel around the big garbage cans from the lunchroom.

By: Secret Passion

Secret Passion — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:11:16 +0000

they got rid of at my school because they “scratched the floors” too lol good times

By: roflmao

roflmao — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:27:29 +0000

We actualy still have these at my school! We use them to play scooter ball (basketball or soccer on scooters) all the time!

By: iluvescookeys

iluvescookeys — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:08:36 +0000

My school still uses them, too. But instead of just races we played mini hokey on them.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:51:18 +0000

We had a game kinda like that, except the ball weighed two or three pounds, and we could either kick or dodge it (which was actually fairly difficult). The teachers threw the ball, the students dodged/kicked. I kicked it once and hit my teacher in the face. As far as I know, the game was never played again. lol

By: parkbtown493

parkbtown493 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:47:09 +0000

i played with these as a kid, rolling over a finger hurt like hell! but now that im an adult and a summercamp counselor i love watching the kids play with these, easily the favorite toy of the camp

By: Nikki

Nikki — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:08:07 +0000

My district’s middle school still uses them. By God, sixth grade was horrible. We couldn’t get through a single gym class without someone howling in pain from their hair getting caught in the wheels/falling off as the scooter kept going/their hands being crushed under the wheels. Good times!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:47:53 +0000

I remember these! I would always run over my fingers or some kids would shoot them unmanned across the ground to destroy someone else’s fingers… Also got my hair and clothing trapped in the wheels. I remember when we would lie down on our fronts and scoot along like turtles… Made your chest feel like you had a bruise after a while!

By: MK

MK — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:19:41 +0000

I remember playing with these in gym class and i got my hand run over. The next day I had to take the IOWA Test and had to write using my left hand because my right hand fingers were all swollen and bruised.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:21:47 +0000

I remember using these in gym in Elementary and Middle school. In Elementary we would have people pull us around on these things with a jump rope. It was a lot of fun. In 8th grade we would walk to the park a lot and one day we took these and went down the slides. It was probably a pretty bad idea, but nobody got hurt. I don’t remember anyone ever getting hurt on one of these things.

By: Y do U need to know?

Y do U need to know? — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:46:55 +0000

Dude, I’m in middle school, and we use these all the time, only, they have handles. We get to race down the hallways, and across the gym. We’ve never broken or lost anything though… But this one time, I was using them, and we were racing, and the other person came up behind me, and rammed into me. I don’t know how she did it, but I couldn’t stop and I smashed through a couple of people, and ended up in a closet with a bunch of stuff on top of me. Yeah, she got suspended.

By: poop

poop — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:41:32 +0000

even in my senior year of high school, these were a required part of the curriculum. although the games weren’t nearly as fun. quite odd to such extent i dreaded gym class in middle / jr high / high school, and yet how much i loved it in elementary school. i’d volunteer to become an elementary school gym teacher if i didn’t dislike those little germ sacks so much. maybe kids wouldn’t be so obese if high schools took a lesson from elementary school gym classes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:26:51 +0000

We still use them (I’m in middle school)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:59:29 +0000

In our elementary we played Ghostbusters with those scooters, we were in the dark and had to tag each other with a stick and when we did the other person was out.

By: em

em — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:28:49 +0000

oh… wow. these and the huge q-tips

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:20:08 +0000

awesome. simply awesome. I remember holding on to skipping ropes whilst people would pull us… the number of times i collided with people or solid objects… over 50 the few eeks we were aloud to use them… I find the closest thing to the feeling is going to a staples and racing down the Isles on the cheap desk chairs

By: Jana

Jana — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:22:20 +0000

Our teacher would have us do races on the ones with handles, but for some crazy reason she wouldn’t let us sit cross-legged on them; everyone had to have their legs sticking out in front of them while going absolutely as fast as the other person could push you. I think it was supposed to prevent the worst of the injuries, but what really happened is you get rolled into a wall, fall off backwards into the pusher’s shins, and get kicked in the head all while going top speed.

By: Shannnn

Shannnn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:23:30 +0000

haha im a teenager andi have a lil sis who is still in elementary school and they still have these things!!! i remember back when i used these things that the first day would just be learning all of the rules and saftey regulations. then we would play the second day and somone would still get hurt anyways :/

By: MEOW :3

MEOW :3 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:36 +0000

I HAVE THOSE IN MY SCHOOL :3 MEOW

By: amy

amy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:58:14 +0000

I remember these. We had a blast on em. Use to race each other w/ them in gym class.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:55:16 +0000

Heheh. Lol! And it takes a lot for me to Lol. Awesome! Just Awesome.