worse I had an audience, including one comedic genius who announced “that was graceful”. Thanks mister. Now aside from the fact that I had splattered my pride all over the pavement, having a stack on a skateboard is actually not that uncool. The embarrassing thing is that I am…..40. I am married. I have three children. Now rethink the whole scenario. Be honest. Did it just take a giant leap from “skate or die” coolness to something resembling the phrase, mid-life crisis? And did I just go from being the person that giggled behind their hand at the man with the comb-over
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driving a red sports car, to being the one secretly ridiculed? Is the giggler now the gigglee? It is not a concept of which I have been completely unaware, I just haven’t given it much thought – frankly I have been having too much fun, until today. I bought my skateboard (which by the way is a longboard, I am not so silly to be tic-tac-ing and olley-ing and whatever else 10 year olds are doing in skateparks – RAD) after my husband encouraged me to learn to ride. Admittedly the thought of falling on concrete was