I Almost Hit an Elderly Man with my Skateboard Today

Posted on 5th March 2011 in Something Daily

I had a somewhat rare day today, in that I was incredibly active for the majority of it. There were three times today when I sat down and started to work, and then for one reason or another, ended up not doing that at all, and instead going out to play in the wonderful weather we had today. At first it was because I realized that it was way too nice out not to go skateboarding, so I headed to Stuyvesant Town again, where I managed to land 3 180s in total – something that I’ve never been able to do before now. I’m definitely getting the hang of it. I also came very close to hitting an old man with my skateboard, and it ended up getting stuck under his little old-man shopping cart thing that old people always seem to have with them on the streets. But I went to go pick it up and I had to go right up in front of him, and as I was getting it he glared at me and said something along the lines of “thats not so smart….I saw a skateboarder get hit by a cab yesterday – the cabs don’t stop….that’s not so smart.” I was embarrassed so I pretty much just said “I’m sorry, I’ll be careful” and kind of skated off…I went home after that. He was a grumpy man.

So I got back and Eric’s friend Rachel was still around, and London was recording in my room. It being a great day, my sometimes-talked about plan to make half shirts was brought up again, and Justin, Eric, and I each made our own halfshirt (mine is sleeveless, and I got an anchor ballpoint tattoo from Eric). Dressed in this ridiculous manner, we went to central park to play frisbee, which was awesome, as it was something that I hadn’t gotten to do in months, it being cold and schooly. But it was a great time. This dad brought his son over to play with us (the son was probably about 3) and they had matching red shoes….awesome! I got back from that and pretty much immediately went for a stroll with Sarah, so this is really the first time that I’m getting a chance to sit down and clear my head today. I don’t regret it though, everything about today was pretty much awesome. It’s good to not worry about work every once in a while, even though that’s something I don’t really like to do too much.

I’m going to learn some more about PHP now, and hopefully also get my data structures homework started, because these things usually take a little while. Oh also I just ate a Blue 9 meal in five minutes, and I kind of feel like I’m going to die. Talk to you guys later.