An interesting thing happened to me recently. I am out here in Arizona and I couldn’t fit my skateboard in my luggage so I decided to cop one while I was down here. I went to the store picked out a ripe flip deck but when they went to grip it I was informed that all they had was neon orange griptape. So now I have a board with orange griptape. While some may think oooh that sounds nice how nu rave of you, in skateboarding it is not a positive infact it is a major negative.It would be similar to going into a staples and being like “yo homie i need a tight 3 ring binder for my notes” and his response would be something like “yeah we have what you need but the only cover we have has a picture of a dick on it.” So now you are walking around school with a nice functional binder but it has a dick on it. All the bullies on campus are all like “hey dick kid” or “eat a binder of dicks” or “eat a pre bagged binder of dicks.” Now, no matter how ill you do on your exams, no matter how steezy you pencil flick is you will be known as the guy with the dick binder. So now I will shamefully ride my orange deck until I get home, promptly focus it and proceed to buy a fresh plan B Ryan Sheckler pro model.

(obligatory sheckler photo)