skater bud
Living in New York City can be very exciting. It can also be very tiring and expensive. If you live in New York, you often have to walk a lot. If you don’t like to walk, you can always take the subway or the bus. When I lived in the city for two years, I got my son a skater bud so he wouldn’t complain about all the walking we had to do.
A skater bud is a set of wheels which you can attach to a child’s sneakers. This is sort of a cross between the roller skates back in the 70s and the roller blades of the 90s. Roller skates were bulky and heavy; they were strapped on the bottom of sneakers. Rollerblades are shoes that have blades with tiny wheels in them. With roller skates you can stand straight and not tip over, standing on roller blades is like standing on ice skates.