Spectacular skateboard accident
I was at Caffe Vita in Capitol Hill with the kids this morning. We had finished our snacks and drinks and were heading outside, when a redheaded tween went shooting by on a skateboard. Two sections of the sidewalk had been pushed together like ice floes so that the level of the cement suddenly jumped up a couple inches. His front wheels caught on this mini-wall of cement, and the kid went flying face-first into a tree. And I’m not being colorful here—he gracefully flew through the air, faceplanted into the tree, and then slid down the trunk, collapsing into a heap at the bottom.
Amazingly, he didn’t seem to be terribly hurt. A woman walking down the sidewalk from the other direction stopped by him.
“Are you okay?” she asked.
“Yes…” he said darkly, hands covering his lower face.
…and that’s why, if my kids ever ask to get a skateboard, I will be telling them, Hell no. Well, No, at any rate.
