Scaredy-cat

Used to walk up and down these steps with in-line skates on. At the bottom there is a bit of brick walkway, unlike other stairways to beach, which had sand between them and the bike path. When I first started skating, I was ignorant, and would sit on a now-gone rock to put on skates, walk through sand to path. Once I learned that sand was clogging the wheels, this particular set of steps was the ones I used most often.

I skated, minimum, three days a week ~ sometimes twice a day. I went early, soon after 6AM, before sun got hot. I also went an hour before sundown. Without skates on, I would take the stairs two at a time walking up them. They are narrow and too close together. Going down, would run down ~ seldom used the railing when I did not have the skates on.

Today when I look down to the bottom of stairs leading to the beach, I am afraid to take the first step. Forget walking up any of them. Always get a feeling that I am going to fall backwards, rolling down to the bottom. Which would not be too horrible ~ if such a fall killed me or produced minor injuries. I always picture it as head bleeding, paramedics called, rushed to the hospital, being detained against my wishes.

Just call me scaredy-cat.