Your dad rode a skateboard before you did and he has a picture in Thrasher to prove it. When your dad was younger, skateboarding was so underground that he had to build his own boards. The cops didn’t know what to do with this new shit kicking menace to the middle class, so they made skateboarding illegal. So hipster, next time you’re rolling down the bike lane of some hipster neighborhood in SF, Portland or New York, remember this…
Your dad was so fucking gnar and awesome that the things he did for fun were made illegal in public places.
My dad has some pretty cool stories about doing this with his cousin, who ended up running a surf shop for like, 20 years. I think the best part is that he doesn’t even think the stories are cool; it’s just like “Yeah, we used to build our own skateboards. We were dumb, but it was pretty fun. There wasn’t a lot to do back then.”
-Nate
