Honk for Safety

Merry Christmas, fellow electric skateboard enthusiast. It should come as no surprise to you that I am a writer before I’m a skater. For years, I’ve written poems and short stories and even a novel or two. Only to have them largely ignored and unread.

After Sanjay emailed me, I felt something special. Something that, as a writer, I hadn’t felt before. I felt writing take on a form a communication. Not just me, typing words for you. But a two way street. It was a great feeling.

It also made me question the very idea of storytelling. For years, I told stories to the keyboard, to little result. Ah, but write a blog, or a letter, and suddenly it’s a shared experience. An experience that makes a change.

It made me want to devote more of my time to letter writing. Maybe it’s in the cards for me to be among King and Crichton and Rowling. But maybe it’s not. Maybe I can do good in this world, with my writing, through *letters*.

Here, my cause has presented itself. Because the truth is, I got lucky. I could have easily been run over twice. Sure, I could ghetto rig a car horn to a glove, and that would work satisfactory. But there’s a better way to do it. Any electric skateboarder out there already has a board that could have a horn mounted to it. We already have remote controllers that have room for an extra, horn button.

I stand here with you, at the dawn of a new era of skateboards. When the board costs around a thousand dollars, and the horn, a hundred or less, we have to measure the benefit. Adding a horn to our electric skateboards *will* save lives. It *will* prevent injury. And I *will* write letters to the top manufacturers of electric skateboards, in an attempt to save life and prevent injury. Will you stand with me?

Evolve Longboards, Boosted Boards, my letters are on the way. Let’s make the new generation of skateboards not just faster and cooler, but safer than the orthodox boards they’re replacing.