I stopped skating because of work and everyone I skated with moved away or quit. Hadnt skated for 6 months when snurp messaged me to say he was skating for the first time in years and was driving down from derby specifically to go skate. We went to stNeots as its ten minutes from my house. Dropped in the mini ramp, did almost all of my tricks on the first run then at the end fucked up a Rock and roll and my big heavy 9” Zarosh board zoomed out and went straight up the opposite transition and hit the aforementioned 5 year old, who was standing inches from the coping, square in the mouth.
He started spitting out teeth (plural) his 3 year old sibling was in hysterics, the gran who brought them was screaming, I was bracing myself for a hiding from the Grandad which under the circumstances i would have to accept as i reasoned I couldnt very well knock the kids teeth out then give his grandad a shoeing seconds later. Luckily he wasnt aggro so I went to get tissues and water from my car and when i came back apologising profusely he said “dont worry, I think I picked all the teeth up… he only came up because he wanted to see the skateboarding”
Then didnt really feel like skating for a while after that
