The other day my elderly neighbour looked sympathetically at me as I struggled up the stairs on my recently acquired crutches. "Did you do it skiing?" she asked. "Skateboarding," I replied. Her expression changed from sympathy to contempt, "oh," she said and walked off.
I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being told "how juvenile" and "don't you think it's time to grow up" and "how emabarassing for you".
The winter olympics are on right now and pretty much every sport seems to invite death or serious injury, but I don't hear anyone saying "how juvenile" when someone decides to go head first down an ice track at over 100kmh.
Skating does have a seriously bad reputation - I guess that's part of the attraction.
Oh, there's only two weeks and one day to go before I can begin to start to walk again - yay. Can't wait to get back on a board.
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