It’s Not Always About The Skating
I learned an critical lesson today. It’s not often about the skating. Sometimes it may be concerning the experience of obtaining there too.
My friend Jason is really a really special boy who lives at a children’s home about 45 minutes from our house. Jason is not allowed to skate there, but the property gave me and my husband permission to take Jason skating. So we picked up Jason, and got his board from his grandmother’s house, along with her blessing for the trip.
We had planned to visit two parks not far from the children’s household. Very first we thought we’d hit the City of Lake Mary Park. We created it there, excited, with a cooler full of drinks, and our enthusiasm bubbling. But we couldn’t skate because I forgot to get Jason’s grandmother to sign a waiver form.
Not to be deterred, we got back within the automobile and headed within the direction we came from towards the City of Deltona. But we got hopelessly lost along the way, and when we finally made it towards the skatepark there, it was open only to BMX riders. Shut down again!!
We realized we necessary a map if we have been going to find our way out of Deltona and back to the children’s residence and civilization. We stopped at a convenience store from the middle of nowhere. While my husband went inside for a map, Jason and I waited, forlorn, inside the back seat of the automobile.
I looked out the window. We had been parked next to an abandoned shopping center. Jason and I looked at each other … and smiled.
We geared up and sessioned the parking lot. There have been no cars and we just goofed around. I’ve never skated on asphalt before. I found a gentle slope and glided down it, working on my bertslides at the bottom. Jason pulled all kinds of tricks that look the same to me but have distinct names. We had fun, giggles and sweaty skating for aboutಔ minutes. By then, we had been starved (we had spent 2 hours trying to locate a place to skate) and had to obtain Jason back for the children’s residence.
We had skated, even though it was just for a few minutes on an abandoned patch of asphalt, so I count the day as a success!! And I believe Jason does as well.
