"Paying for it" in this context means having to deal with a relentless onslaught of children whose douchebag parents think its OK to use a skatepark as a day care center and its somehow our responsibility to not only tolerate but actually take care of them. Gone are the days when skaters were few and far between because finding a good place to skate actually took some effort (and a willingness to break the law on occasion). Public skateparks have spawned a new breed of "day care skater" - armed only with a soccer mom with an Astro van (make sure thhose child restraints are fastened properly!), tots of every sort can now roll up, pad up and get their "extreme" on - just like on TV!!
Sadly this park was no exception - overrun with kids who should be home watching Nickelodeon instead of peppering me with questions. I have developed an effective way of dealing with this - as soon as I get two questions (Are you sponsored? Can you change my diaper?) I say, "I'm going to have to limit you to three questions today". This is usually followed by, "huh"? At which point I say "That's your third question" and skate off toward the opposite end of the park - that's where I found Scott Obradovich and Tom Knox getting some:
Sadly it wasn't long before the kids closed in again - I'm not going to say they drove me to drink, but next thing I knew I was here:
Crying in my beer and lamenting the sad state of affairs that is skateboarding these days. Every wall in the bar was covered in one dollar bills (Just "1" More, get it?) - the owner claimed she was saving them for her pending "breat augmentation" (I dunno - they looked fine to me).....I slapped an ADDIKT sticker on a George Washington and looked for a place to post up - that's when I saw this piece of art:
Now those are my kind of children......
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