Shoes with Wheels! Would you want to try them?

[S.T.A.C.E.Y]

Tonight at the grocery store, this young kid sailed past me down one of the aisles (rows?) wearing a pair of shoes with little wheels in the bottom. And it got me thinking.....what if??? The kid was really in control with these shoes on, stopping, starting, turning, etc. And when she had to help her mom push the cart out to the lot, just popped the little wheels back into the bottom of the shoes, and they were like regular shoes again. Just for laughs, anyone actually seen nurse try to wear these in the hospital? Would you ever want to try them? Could you imagine how much easier it could be on your knees? Do you think it would actually be allowed? LOL, it makes me laugh to just think about zipping up and down the halls from the nursing station with one push off. :roll

[Mulan]

do they come with training wheels?

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I sometimes forget how to walk without wheels.

Oy.

[fascinoma]

I really want a pair of these shoes!!

I wouldn't wear them to work though, lol.

[BJLynn]

I think I would accidentally kill myself with these things.

[SK-222]

What a funny visual that would be, seeing professionals zip around the office on wheeled shoes, and (jokingly) can you imagine the way a workman's comp claim would work when a nurse was injured on the job due to their unique shoe?

[palesarah]

I saw a couple kids wheeling around WalMart in their Heelies a while back- I hadn't seen them before and thought they were really cool (in fact, I believe my exact words to DH were "ooh! me likey me wanty). And did in fact have a brief vision of myself wearing them at work, but that would be a disaster, lol! So I guess I'll stick with my Danskos.

[WoosahRN, MSN, RN]

They would probably give us more work if we were zipping around so fast! Haha.

[ICRN2008, BSN, RN]

I'm not terribly uncoordinated, but I have a feeling that I would go crashing into a wall or an IV pole at some point. Better just to walk the old-fashioned way!

[clee1]

In a past life I wore skates at work; I was briefly a carhop at Sonic.

Cool idea, but NO WAY would I wear skates in a hospital!

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

Risk management would never go for it!

It does make an amusing mental picture though!

It reminds me of a scene from a movie I saw years ago, with a nurse rolling down the hall on an IV pole, tossing pills at people as she passed by! :rotfl:

[puggymae]

I would love to have a pair - do you think my clinical group can push me from room to room in a wheel chair until my halo traction is removed?

[fascinoma]

The wheelies look to me like a good way to get more exercise in your daily walk, though. I'll always try to work within walking distance as my first choice.