4.20.98

A Good Day To Be 42

I went to the skateshop one day, pulled up, and there were some kids
around 10 to 12 years old I guess skating the curb outside.
I got out of my car and one kid yells at me "Hey, Do you skate?"
I answer: Yes.
I walk over to them and ask: You want to see a oldschool trick?
They look at me, (I can read their minds: "this old fart is going to
fall on his butt and we are going to laugh")
One of them hands me a board, I pop an ollie handplant with a mute
grab(no big deal)
All of their mouths drop at once, They start asking me all kinds of
questions: How do you do that trick?
Can you show me?
I try to show one of them how to start the trick: He cannot seem to bend
down far enough (you have to ollie at a weird angle)
I just tell him: " you have to work on it"
I walk into the shop laughing to myself, not at the younger skaters but
at how everybody automatically judges eachother.
"Maybe I will see them again and we can session togeather"
It was a good day to be 42.......

-Andrew Kutras