No parent asks for their child to become a skateboarder.
Believe me, they don't.
Especially it's their little daughter who grew up playing with American Dolls and watching Disney Princess movies.
They start out with a little bit of reluctance.
Glancing warily at the guys with skinny jeans, long hair, and arm casts.
They come with you (cos, honestly, how is a 14 year old going to get around?) to the store, and
watch over your shoulders as you talk skateboards with the guy in tattoos and piercings.
Smile proudly as you pay a whopping $150 for your shiny new skateboard.
Pick you up when you fall. Are always there with the band aids. Wince when you go down a monstrosity of a ramp. That is their job, as parents.
They're scared when you're the only girl in a skate park full of teenage guys who are smoking what they refer to as sh*t.
But, it was so worth it all when yesterday, as my brother told me, my Mom was waiting for me in the car, looked up, and gasped: "Is that Jillian?".
Soooo sooooo worth it.
Wait, what happened?! Why was she surprised?
ReplyDeleteI was just doing some bigger ramps, I'm not sure exactly when she said it, cos my brother told me later.
ReplyDeleteawww Jillian:)
ReplyDeletethis made me smile.
Ah! Maybe I should become a skateboarder.
ReplyDeleteThen again, the tough guys that board around my neighborhood would probably collapse into fits of laughter as soon as they saw me.
Isn't that a nice feeling when you impress your parents by doing something you love that they don't like? I love feeling like that.
ReplyDeleteGosh I somehow envy you. I've always had thís facination for skaterboarding and skateboarders. I don't know what's about them but there is something. My friends brothers used to skateboard alot and was really good and won stuff and so, so I hurry catched up the idea about it but was either to lazy or clumsy to ever learn it, unfortunet.
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