Driving down to my favorite indoor skate park i ended up behind a car (SUV of course) with the license plate 'LV2GLF'. Holy shite is the first thought to come to mind. This guy is so obsessed with this elitist so-called sport which destroys wilderness areas and pollutes our rivers and groundwater supplies with excessive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides just to keep grass green and lush enough for old white yuppies to walk after white balls that they themselves hit. Oh how i love run-on sentences.
But, before i had time to build up to a proper level of road-rage i pictured the back of my car with the various skateboarding related stickers that adorn the rear-end of my 'whip'. How many people have passed by my vehicle and thought: "that damn skate punk, defacer of our beautiful concrete and asphalt, knocking over elderly women who are just trying to cross the road, having more fun with a rolling piece of wood in a parking lot than i have watching football on Monday nights". See, everyone likes to think in run-on sentences.
It all seemed so clear at that moment. Me and this guy are both just at the receiving end of people's prejudice surrounding the activities we enjoy so much that we openly display them on our modes of transportation. The only difference is i spend my leisure time partaking in a creative art form while he spends his leisure time hitting things with clubs. Also, he chooses to get to his golf course in a climate changing SUV and i go to my skate spot in a morally conscious hybrid.
Come to think of it... why do skaters get treated like developly challenged misfits of society? i guess that's how artists have always been treated and skateboarding is not a sport, it's an art form. We've all got our preconceived notions of who people are because of the things they choose to do. Some are justified, some are not. Either way, road rage is instant fun but not so good for the blood pressure (or marital relations).
i wonder who's equipment smelt worse at the end of that day: his golf glove or my knee and elbow pads?
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