When I bought the board, the guy made a point to say "Don't let your skateboard get wet." And I mean obviously, does he think I'm stupid enough to try boarding in the ocean. ..............
Fast foward, Sunday night around midnight. My jolly ass goes for a skate break around campus. I see some action going on at the freshmen dorms (involving an ambulance and probably some drunk bitch) so I linger around to see if anything exciting happens. It doesn't, so I decide to take the scenic route back to my studio. And by scenic route I mean 6 foot sidewalk running right next to the alligator infested lake in the center of my campus. I drew some maps.
And here's what the bitch of a lake actually looks like
And here's a section of the beginning of my scenic route, and the important location of what is to happen.
Okay so, I'm skating with a friend who tells me "Don't skate in the lake Hahaha" and of course I'm like "Yeah GTFO Like I would actually do that, I'm not incompetent!" Well apparently I AM incompetent because as soon as I say this my board goes flying from under my feet right in the direction of the cliff leading down into the lake.
I start SPRINTING after it, but OF COURSE, I am too slow and I watch in slow motion as my board flys over the cliff and into the water below. I fall on my knees at the cliffs edge, crying "NOOOOOOOOOO" to the world in hopes that my board my magically fly up into my hands again. It did not. So I made my friend climb down and fetch it for me.
And it's only been a day since this happened but as of now there isn't any significant damage to the board. I sure as FUCK don't want to spend $40 on new trucks or $20 on new bearings so I PRAY these things are fine after this traumatic experience.
It's a damn shame. Had the board 5 days and already drove it into a body of water.
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