Game Day Skate

The other day, I went for a skate with the son of a friend of mine. Of all the skates I’ve ever done on campus, this one was the one that blew my mind. It made me realize that all this time, I’ve been doing it wrong.

Because yesterday, we took a skate on campus, and it was game day.

I guess you can’t blame me. I was never really into football. Or drinking. So I’d never really done much tailgating. But yesterday, the University of Florida was jam packed with people. College girls were everywhere, in their short shorts and orange and blue, and it was a sight to behold.

From a purely skateboarding point of view, it might have been a more difficult skate than usual. Because the sidewalks were clogged with drunk people. But by now, I know my way around campus enough to find the right roads to go down. And with breaks, it’s really not that bad. We only had to carry our boards when we walked across University ave to grab a bite to eat.

I’m anxious to do this again on the next game day, when I can go with my SO, and maybe do some real tailgating. I mean, people were everywhere. No small patch of grass was too small for someone to set up a tent and start drinking there. No parking garage was empty from people who wanted to celebrate in the shade.

I passed one group in the back of their pickup truck who said, “I thought it was *drones*!” Which made me laugh. It was true. With the acoustics of the parking garage, the way the motors of the skateboards sound, we did sound like drones. Until you saw us.

From now on, I think skating campus on a game day is going to be mandatory. It’s almost like a big skaters amusement park, complete with hot dogs and hot girls. Our experience was completed with not one, but two college boys asking me if it was “an electric.”

My canned response? “It’s the only way to fly.”