Handles. In my day we held the wheels! None of us have fingers anymore but that was how you became a man!

Anyone else ever get to take two of these and throw a gym mat on top them to make a "car"? Two people would get on and two people would push and you'd crash into just about everything. Best days in gym class ever.

Not sure if this was they're intended use, but our gym teacher had a rod that went into that hole. Then she should stack cones on that rod. I almost feel as though that was the original purpose until one underfunded school decided children should ride on them. The rest is history.

So many scraped knuckles because of these guys.

Getting the one with the bad bearings that sounded horrible and never went straight, then "accidentally" knocking some other kid off their scooter so you could switch with them.

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I purchased some for my kids. They're pretty awesome. You can lay a full grown man on three of them and drunkenly scoot around the house. Ma scooter

They were the best at rolling over your fingers.

They really need to change the name of that website it's on.

So nobody else played Scooter Basketball or Scooter Soccer in elementary school? Man, my friend went down in history with the most epic Scooter Basketball shot from across the court. To be clear, the ball was one of those small foam dodgeballs, and the hoop was barely big enough to fit... it was also attached to the back of one of the scooters so it was a moving target.

Oh god my fingers hurt just thinking about it

There was a special way to go super fast on those things to win races. You lay down on your stomach and use both your arms and legs to propel yourself. But you gotta be careful so everyone doesnt run you over. It only works in special 1v1 races

GIANT PARACHUTE DAY WAS THE BEST

Being a 6'4 220 pound middle schooler, I hated these fuckin scooters. It's like they were made for kids or something.

These have been upgraded from when I was using them. No handles and pretty much just a piece of wood with wheels on them. Back in the era of the mid 90's.

They still use these in the school I student taught in a few years ago.

I, personally, never saw them before. Guess I'm too old. They looked like a lot of fun.

In grade school we used to play a game called medicine man, it was a dodge ball based game. When you were hit by a ball, or opponent caught your ball, and you became "out", you would immediatly sit down right in that spot. The "medicine man" had the cart, and he hung out in the back, most furthest away location from opponent, he could then ride/push the cart to the person who is out. That "out" person would get a ride to the back and then become "in" again. Also the person being rescued could block balls while being pulled back to safety. If the medicine man got struck, he was out, and there would be no more rescuing, and the game would just finish out like regular Dodge ball. The best game EVER!

Until you lean too far to one side and fucking crush your fingers on the floor. Yea, really great times.

those were good but these were the real deal http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002616352?ie=UTF8&tag=lothma04-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B002616352

until you run over your finger. which will happen

You lost a leg in Nam?

I lost a finger in P.E..

Yes, until you ran over your fingers! Ouch!

Not the way my gym teacher used 'em...

I remember every gym class involving these devolving into "lets slam this into ___ at full speed and see what happens!"

(I'm saying this for just about everyone here) Unless you roll over your fingers.

I tipped over onto my right middle finger. Cut off a large chunk of flesh under the nail. Didn't feel a thing. Just threw a bandaid on and saved the skin. Oh to be young again.

Just don't roll over your fucking hands.

I found a lot of teachers power tripped when bringing these out. What do you mean we're only going to get to use them twice a year? What do you mean we have to complete your shitty obstacle course and activity instead of just going nuts? What do you mean I can't joust on them? This sucks!

Holy shit I just thought of these the other day. So many fun times were had because of these things.

I can tell you that these things provide a crazy leg workout as an adult.

Fingers.

When did these become a thing? I never saw them as a kid.

rubs knuckles pensively

Until you ran your own fingers over, they were the shit

Oh man, I haven't thought of these in years. Thanks for bringing it back! :)

My dad was a gym teacher. We had the wooden version of these in our basement as kids. Most popular time in my life...

Best day in gym class if you didn't have any fingers!!!

I got five stitches in my chin from one of these bad boys in high school.

My fingers hurt looking at these things.

Where can I buy these things now ?

The best until you ran over your fingers

Someone at my school thought it was a good idea to use these on a tennis court. You know the kind where the surface is just sandpaper.

My daughter broke her finger on one when she was in 3rd grade! But damn they were fun!!!!!

Gah! My fucking knuckles! Jesus I swear I still have scars from dragging my fingers along the gym floor. Ouch.

And there was always that one kid who would try to ride it like a skateboard, and fall on his ass/ face

Found them on Amazon a couple years ago. Got them for my kids for Christmas. They still use them. Best gift ever.

How you knew gym was going to be an awesome time.

RIP Fingers...

Broken knuckles from running them over, and bruised hips from riding them like a skateboard.

Best days of my life.

My school had a scooter hockey league with those using mini-sticks. It was amazing.

I've seriously fucked my fingers up on these every damn time.

Chipped my tooth in third grade playing dodgeball while lying on our stomaches. I tried to duck and the floor beat me.... beat me good

My friend's dad was a gym teacher. He'd unlock the gym and let a bunch of us use the gym on Saturday/Sundays. We had these and a variation with handles that you would swivel to make it go.

We'd set up tons of gym mats. Make a city out of them. I'm talking like the whole gym set up with mats. Then we'd use one knee on it and push off with the other leg. They would dip. We'd pretend we're playing GTA and we'd do "missions."

Really fun times.

I'm from canada.. This mixed with mini hockey sticks not only destroyed our fingers, but also our hands, wrists, and eyes.

Not when you ended up running over your hand they weren't.

As a guy who was 6'4 in seventh grade, these things sucked. Impossible to get going without your shorts turning into a bikini bottom.

To each their own. I have fond memories of climbing the rope.

Dat tingle.

These remind me of scraped knuckles and broken fingers.

I can't believe nobody has brought this up, I used to lay my stomach down on them and crawl across the floor pretending I was spider man

I freaking hated these, my fingers would always get destroyed.

Miss them almost as much as I miss my fingernails.

Ahh the days of elementary school's jousting tournament for medieval week. It was sad really.

The plebs' cardboard swords and shields didn't stand a chance against my expertly crafted wood sword and shield from my grandfather.

And so begin the reign of my family as the kings and queens of the land (for a week).

My friend started from one end of the gym. Rode it like a skateboard and tried to jump onto the stage. He trod 12 times and succeeded not once. This happened this past school year. He just graduated

Dodgeball on the scooters. There is no better feeling for a kid than knocking a kid off their scooter with a red rubber ball.

I always loved gym glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5WJrBvCVk&t=0m9s

Till you ran over your fingers. I broke one of my fingers on those pieces of shit

if you didn't like your fingers that is.

These are the reason "Smarties" were outlawed in gym class.... hit one of those fuckers with a wheel while zipping across the court and "Mppzzzzzzfffftttt" !

We used these to play a game my gym teacher named "Survivor." Three teams of four start on one sideline of the basketball court with an "Island" in the middle then "land" on the other sideline. Each team had one scooter and rope. First team with all members across to the other side won. If anyone hit the "water" or didn't make it to the island, you had to start over.

We used to pull each other around using those plastic hockey sticks when we got free time in gym.One time my friend let go and I spun around and hit the girl I had a crush on right on the eyebrow. She had to have stitches and ended up hating me all the way up through highschool.

i had one that had a bad wheel, wanna know how i noticed that? i was going down hill.

I sliced the space between my right index and thumb open on the wheel once.

Damn. These were the shit. Our school even had scooter soccer tournaments pitting class against class. We all chipped in for tshirts even.. that was the best damn time ever..

Unless you liked your fingers

Update: scooters connect together to create a super scooter.

East coast schools whats up lol

Yass

I went to French Immersion school, we called them trotinettes.

Naw man, dodgeball war.. where if you got hit you had to drop down and a medic would come from the back and touch you to bring you back in the game, was the best...

Oh my God

My fingers are hurting already

My hands after riding these damn things.

Mine were made of wood and the wheels didn't have guards. Worst damn invention since the metal / wood play structures.

I still have a blue one.

We played hockey on those in gym. We had a bunch of blades from sticks and used those. It was fun and a new element to hand Injuries.

I hated gym, pretty much all the way until HS I hated it...except for butt scooter day!

Phys Ed was instantly great when you walked into the gymnasium and these were out, besides running over your own fingers

The best at destroying fingers.

best gym day in the world was when you walked in and saw these, the orange "traffic" cones, and the ropes.

edited to add The Parachute.

It's all fun and games until someone loses a finger

Until you ran over your fingers.

The best day I ever had in gym class was the day we played ultimate frisbee on these things. It was pouring rain outside so we were stuck trying to play frisbee in the small gym which sucked. Someone suggested playing on these bad boys and it was amazing. Gym teacher didn't give a shit and just watched us and laughed.

SWEET MERCY!! THIS!! I want one.

Until you got a finger rolled over.

Aw gosh, they had those at my school, but only the retards got to play with them.

Class ^{Dont hate me.}

*knee scooters

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Upvote for the use of " Butt Scooters"