sneezing, itchy eyes, runny nose.........anyone have a guillotine

so, yesterday was BEAUTIFUL!!!! no clouds, super warm out, one of those days that you do not want to spend indoors. luckily there's a decent cement park not too far from me so i took the opportunity to go out and enjoy the weather. got there, it was crowded as i expecting with a plethora or 6 year olds skating in circles with their parents screaming at them to go faster, skateboarders posing everywhere, looking "cool" but doing nothing more than getting in others way, and bmxers tearing around the park, cutting everyone and anything off. but i had my shuffle so i just skated where i could, enjoying being outside and skating.

got home....

WAIT! completely off of what i was going to talk about but i can't further without telling you what i witnessed yesterday. most of you that don't rollerblade or skateboard or anything like that probably won't get it but those of you who do, will. so while i was there, there was a skater hanging out, not really skating. had some groupie girls with puffed addidas and loads of eye shadow hanging around him. anyway, he finally gets up and starts skating around. mind you, this guy is trying to look "hard." he's got his baggy pants, ripped korn t-shirt, grizzly beard, long, flowing brown hair, thick wallet chain, little bit heavy set etc. know the type? so, this dude finally gets up and tears through the park COMPLETELY out of control. i could tell he was trying to make it look like he knew what he was doing but you can't really hide ability. so he tears at this quarter pipe, stumbling the whole way, front flips out of the pipe, lands on his heels and washes out into a biker sitting on a bench. some people we're cheering, clearly because they wanted to see him try it again and fail. i think most were just kinda in awe and thinking "wow. this guy is going to get ruined." as one guy said. so he tries it again, lands it, sort-of, and his girlfriends cheer and run out to congratulate him. great! he's done. oh, no he's not. so for the next little bit, he just tore around the park, fumbling, stumbling and falling all over the place. no tricks, just... that. at this point i just sat, enjoyed the sunshine and watched. i didn't want to run into him and get impaled by his studded bracelet. so, there's this one part in the park that has this guard railing. it's probably about 4 feet tall or so. it's not meant for grinding, it's high! it's just there to block people from the bank going in the opposite direction. i'm sitting relatively close to it. i see this guy skate really hard at this rail, slow down abruptly and grab the rail with his hands as if he was just testing it out first. the guy i was sitting with, aaron, said "oh, he's probably going to try a hand-stand flip over it or something dumb like that." we both laughed because we thought it was true. we looked over at him because he's groupie girlfriend were egging him on. "you can do it! we have faith in you!!!!!!!" next thing you know, this guy is skating at this rail full speed. when i say full speed, i mean FULL SPEED. sketchy, but fast. he approaches it, straight jumps it attempting to clear it from the ground (no handstand), smashes both knees into the top of the rail, wips around and hits his face on the edge of the ground under the rail and disappears down onto the bank. REAL TV candidate for sure, but nobody was filming. so we go over, he's moaning, his girlfriends are freaking out. the entire park is over to see what happened. anyway, to cut this story off, ambulance came, 2 bruised knees, he walked to his brothers car and they left. what can i say. the guy got lucky. there's no reason both legs shouldn't have been folded at the knees the opposite way like an ostrich. what have we learned from all of this: 1. know your limits 2. groupie girls are the devil 3. wallets with big chains belong in the 90's

so i got home and my eyes started itching. i started sneezing all over the place (i actually pulled a muscle in my back with one sneeze). my nose was a faucet. what the hell happened to my amazing day? allergies happened. now as i sit with 4 empty boxes of kleenex, i wonder to myself at what point did i become allergic to the outdoors? i think it's pretty safe to say i spent much more of my life outdoors than indoors. if anything i would think i would be immune to anything the outdoors could dish out. i've eaten my share of dirt and grass, more of course when i was little haha. i think most of us would be. i just don't understand why allergies to the outdoors exist in so many people. it sounds ridiculous to me. i guess i just figure the more time you spend doing something, the more you "adapt" to its environment. i suppose adaptation takes hundreds, probably thousands of years but still. we've been on this planet for a long, long time and so has grass and dandelions. we've had more than enough time to get along. you could always look at the big picture. i'd rather be allerigic to grass and such than air or water. and for those of you that are thinking "Ptsh! No ones allergic to air or water!" you'd be wrong!

Allergic to Water

Allergic to Water 2


what a great way to ruin a day. allergies!!!!