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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 14:13:46 GMT -8
"I did, but they all seemed far more.... graceful than I am," Adriel laughed, rubbing the back of his head. "Plus, I think my daughter would love to see me fall on my butt a few times, it'll make her feel better if she sees me struggling but persisting."
He thought of Rochelle, falling over herself because she'd be laughing at him so hard. Sure, he'd be a little embarrassed about falling over in front of other parents, but as an adult, he could stand that, especially for his daughter. "But we can come together for open skate times, right?"
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Post by Sungyong Han on Jul 18, 2020 14:23:41 GMT -8
Sungyong smiled at Adriel asking if he could come with his daughter for open skate times and said, "Yeah, we encourage people to bring their kids and skate with them at open skate times. I know that a lot of the kids really like showing off what they've learned to their parents or other responsible adults. It's fun seeing families come to have fun at open skates."
Sungyong did kind of miss the days that he'd managed to be the one who watched Tai when he was very little the most by just being able to bring Tai to the rink even when he was working. He'd been the only one who could bring him to work. Tai'd come to the rink less and less as he'd gotten more deeply involved in dance and music, but it had still always been basically the fallback child care plan.
Sungyong added, amused, "And yes, a lot of the kids seem to think that it's hilarious when their adults are less coordinated on the ice than they are. But we also always have ice monitors out there keeping an eye out to make sure that no one gets hurt or has too much of a hard time."
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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 14:44:36 GMT -8
"Well I'll have to bring her by for an open skate then. You said we could rent skates here, right?" Adriel just wanted to confirm. He'd been given a lot of information today, and though he'd certainly seen and heard it all, it'd take a while before it sank in.
"Do you have any kids?" he asked. Sungyong seemed too comfortable with kids to not have any of his own, but then again, he'd been the same before Rochelle.
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Post by Sungyong Han on Jul 18, 2020 15:25:43 GMT -8
Sungyong nodded and waved at the counter on the other side of the lobby to indicate it, before he said, "Yeah, you can rent skates. We generally encourage people to start with rented skates because decent skates can be expensive. We do also provide sharpening and basic maintenance for skates at the skate rental counter. There's a pretty good range of sizes, though I don't remember exactly how high the sizes go up, just that I've almost never heard of someone having issues getting their size. I think that some of the biggest sizes we may only have one or two pairs of though."
He was a little bit surprised at the kids of his own question, but he replied readily enough, "I don't have kids of my own, but I helped raise my nephew, uh well my best friend's nephew who is basically also my nephew and he's the guardian of, from when I was eighteen and the kid was two."
He wondered if that had been too convoluted of a response, though he'd tried to leave out the overly complicated parts, and that Tai was abroad now and would be for the foreseeable future. He missed the kid though.
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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 15:31:50 GMT -8
Adriel just smiled warmly at Sungyong's explanation. "You seem really good with kids is all. I just thought you might have experience. And trust me, being an uncle via a friend totally counts. I never wanted kids because I enjoyed the 'giving them back' part of watching over them. Once I had my daughter though, it was completely different."
He scoffed a little at himself, "sorry, that was probably too personal. My bad. I just moved here, I don't know anyone really and talking to people has been nice, so I might have gotten a little too overshare-y right then. I apologize."
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Post by Sungyong Han on Jul 18, 2020 15:52:52 GMT -8
Sungyong laughed a little and shook his head at the apology. He said, "I've also been helping with and then teaching kids skating classes since I was about thirteen. I've always liked kids. Though if you'd asked me at eighteen, before Tai's mom passed away if I wanted to effectively become one of Tai's parents, and not just one of his most frequent babysitters, I probably would have told you that I didn't want to be a parent until I was at least in my mid-twenties because that seemed like a lot older at that point. It was a lot getting through college and basically helping co-parent and then the three of us, uh Tai's actual uncle, and our other best friend, and me, getting settled out here with the kid after undergrad. It worked out OK though, and he's a great kid. I miss seeing him on a daily basis because he's abroad right now."
He added, "And there, now we're even on the oversharing a bit. I get the feeling of being new in town, though I'm sure that you'll get to know people faster than I did."
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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 16:06:30 GMT -8
Adriel felt at ease as Sungyong returned the favor of sharing about himself. He was happy to have met someone so kind. He took note that Sungyong seemed to think himself unapproachable or unfriendly.
"What do you mean faster than you? You seem perfectly friendly, you've been a great help and I feel welcomed." Adriel said. He thought about it a little, "I won't be offended if you say you're only acting like that with me because you're paid to do so. I realized as I was saying it that I was putting my foot in my mouth again. Sorry."
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Post by Sungyong Han on Jul 18, 2020 18:51:30 GMT -8
Sungyong shrugged and said, "Making new friends and acquaintances quickly generally requires being willing to go up and talk to new people first, which is generally not something that I do. Today was a bit of an exception I guess, just considering the situation. Helps that you're pretty easy to talk with."
He thought over their interaction and added, "It also helps that I'm used to giving the professional spiel at this point, though even so, it's a part of the job that I generally relegate to other people. So I guess you also had good timing."
Sungyong wasn't unfriendly, but he was generally pretty shy and quiet and very focused on the stuff that he cared about.
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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 19:01:52 GMT -8
"Well thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone to save me from an awkward situation, and for helping me so much today." Adriel started to extend his hand for another handshake, but remembered that Sungyong didn't seem to like physical contact.
"I'll be back here with my daughter in the future, maybe you can give me some pointers after I fall a couple dozen times." He laughed at himself. "It was nice to meet you, Sungyong."
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Post by Sungyong Han on Jul 18, 2020 19:25:19 GMT -8
Sungyong smiled and said, "It was nice to meet you as well. I'll look forward to seeing your daughter in class."
He gave a dry laugh and said, "And I'm sure that one of us will help you out before you fall too many times. I hope that you enjoy the public skating with your daughter and she ends up enjoying the class."
He added, pulling out the form with the summary of her class information on it, "Oh, and here I know you took the brochures, but here's the specific info for her class times and stuff, in case you didn't have it already. Grabbed it when I went back to the office to drop off the form, but forgot to give it to you on my way out the ice. Figured you might have the information down already, but extra didn't seem like a bad call."
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Post by Adriel Flowers on Jul 18, 2020 19:40:46 GMT -8
Adriel happily took the extra form. "Thanks again. I'll definitely be seeing you in the future. I'll make sure to introduce you to Rochelle."
He waved anded headed for the exit, excited to tell his daughter about the ice skating rink.
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