Skateboarding as protection from aging

[1eyedkunt]

This whole hipster skateboarding explosion has really hit something home to me that's probably really obvious, but whatever: the fact that all us GenXers can't get over the fact that we're growing up. We're worse than our parents about wanting to hold on to our youth! through our 20s it was all about care bears and unicorns and all the cartoony

Comments

[bodyfour]

> I'm just trying to figure out what it'll be when we reach our forties

Complaining about last decade's skateboard injuries that our bodies weren't flexible enough to heal from.

[1eyedkunt]

ha! definitely!

[ninarawkstah]

> can't wait till every 40something Xer decides he needs to start his own grunge band ;-)

*snort*

[tjcrowley]

I know what it is for me as I go through my mid-life crisis, it seems to be younger (20 something) girls. I wouldn't put it past the females I know to go after younger guys either.

[1eyedkunt]

too much of a cliche ;-) not that we won't do it, mind you, but we always have to find other (usually ironic) ways of expressing our ongoing midlife crises.

[nightrider]

Hey! I'm forty and still skating. Never stopped! (Unless you count the recovery time following my motorcycle accident.) My legs definitely look youthful, now that you mention it... Hmm...maybe I'll go start that grunge band now...

[ultraminx]

Easy; we'll be sitting around in candle-lit rooms listening to the Cure and applying lots of eyeliner. And going to goth clubs.

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