August 25, 2008

• Chinese gymnasts are underage

  Today I came into work unusually late, like I ate breakfast at lunch time.  whoops.  Anyway, I decided I'd treat myself to some coffee, so I stopped by Norris on the way to the office, got my tall iced cafe mocha, and then got on my bike.  In front of me at the top of the hill was a mom and her daughter.  She looked about Jr. High age and she had one of those cool skateboards, you know, the one that is split in two parts and you have to make an S to ride it?  Well, I've tried those at the store before and they are not easy.  They are not like regular skateboards.  So I thought to myself, wow, this girl has balls, she's pretty gutsy.  So she steps on the board while we're at the top of the hill, and I decide to just stop and watch her bomb the hill.  Well, she was, she didnt even need to carve.  And then I started thinking, wow, this girl is good and reminisced about the days when Theo and I would bomb hills tandem.  We would take Alex's longboard and Theo would be in front, I would ride in back, and we'd go down all these hills around Middle Earth.  Well, one day, we got this GREAT idea that we'd go down the hill behind the commons (omgosh i can't remember the name!  ahh, we're so old). It was this really long hill so we could pick up a lot of speed.  So we decided we'd do it.  Theo got on, I got on.  We started out slow, but then started picking up some killer speed.  Well, ahead of us was one of those raise up bars, you know the ones that only service vehicles or authorized personnel can pass with their electronic/magnetic sticker things.  Ahhh...we were in trouble.  Yeah, we thought about how we'd stop before we started, but we said to ourselves "eh, let's just go and worry about it later." Well, at that moment, genius Theo said, "jump jump", so I jumped!  Of course we're going too fast for me to catch myself, so I took 2 steps, then tripped and skidded on the asphalt.  30 seconds later my dad called me on the phone and asked how I was doing.  I was moaning in pain and said, "fine, can you call back later?!" haha. He had no idea. Ok, so back to today.  I watched this girl bombing the hill, totally excited, and then I thought, "oh, how is she gonna stop?  there's a whole bunch of gravel at the bottom.  If I were on a longboard I would not go down this hill because of the gravel at the bottom."  And then 2 seconds later, girl freaks out, sees the gravel, trips, and smacks on the ground.  The mom gasps and runs to her baby as she cried "Mommy!"

  At that point I just laughed. haha. Omgosh, I feel bad for laughing, but I don't at the same time.  I know exactly how it feels and how stupid she was for not thinking ahead.  Ah, the wonders of being young and stupid.

  So that's why the Chinese gymnast are underage.  They have no fear and no concept of what can hurt them.  Just young and stupid. I miss those days...

  (Don't get me wrong, I still think the Chinese gymnasts are totally awesome - Chinese gov't please don't slaughter me)

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