If you give a kid a skateboard
If you give a kid a skateboard, they?ll try to ollie. And they will fail. Over and over again.
To go with their new skateboard, they’ll insist you pay for skate shoes. You?ll refuse. Because you picture the pot head 10th graders you grew up with who wore iconic checkerboard Vans like a bad-boy status symbol. But then they show you all the holes in their Nikes. And says their toes and ankles hurt. So you grudgingly buy them skate shoes. And your mindset just might evolve a little.
If you give a kid a skateboard, they will find other kids with skateboards and disappear for hours into the neighbourhood, returning sweaty and thirsty and a little scraped up, calling each other ?Brah? and ?Dude.?
They?ll initiate conversations about trucks and bearings, which you will have to Google. When you won?t shell out, they will spend their mowing money on ?Bones Reds.? And you will Google that, too. If you give a kid a skateboard, you?ll have to drive to all the skateparks in a 30-kilometre radius. Every time you go, you will feel old and dorky. And you?ll worry, a lot, about other kids getting hurt. (Why aren?t they wearing helmets" Where are their parents")
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