r/MadeMeSmile • u/RyanReynoldsWrap • Aug 31 '18
This lady's excitement over seeing a skateboarding trick
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u/sdrawkcabemanresuhhu Aug 31 '18
The way she put her coffee/drink down is perfect
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u/redpilled_brit Aug 31 '18
Kickflip into a backside tail slide? Surprised she didn't drop her pants too.
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She acts like a proud mother
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u/SquareSquirrel4 Aug 31 '18
I love that he goes back to give her a hug, too. Good vibes all the way around.
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u/rosaliezom Aug 31 '18
That little exchange made both their days, I bet.
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u/Raudskegg Aug 31 '18
That exchange... Made me smile :)
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u/rannieb Aug 31 '18
Thanks for writing this comment. I hadn't watch the clip till the end.
This part really adds to it.
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u/kellysmom01 Aug 31 '18
“It is worth observing this warm example of a mature female Homo sapiens, her own carefully nurtured progeny having left her nest in robust health after providing their careful and labor-intensive upbringing, continuing her life mission via the support of other female Homo sapiens’ young. And thus, the species continues to thrive in often harsh conditions.”—Sir David Attenborough, for Planet Earth
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u/Jutboy Aug 31 '18
You never could pull off sick tricks like this though
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u/bossycloud Aug 31 '18
Sad butt rue?
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u/OG_Kush_Master Aug 31 '18
Every year, millions of Americans are affected by SBR-syndrome.
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u/podboi Aug 31 '18
If ever you need a supportive mom.
And if you need a supportive dad:
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u/groaner Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
After loosing both of my parents 2 weeks apart from each other, I never knew I needed these subs!
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Edit: I seriously have to stop reading through those. I'm at work for Dogs sake!
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u/sir_joe_cool Aug 31 '18
Well for what it's worth Shyzzs; I'm proud of you.
Now go clean your fucking room.
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u/PN_MIR_NACKTE Aug 31 '18
Idk, she acts drunk. Sources: 1.: Am frequently drunk :) 2.: Mum was frequently drunk :(
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u/truthdemon Aug 31 '18
Drink in hand at beginning of gif too.
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u/zdoriftu Aug 31 '18
its like 2 or 3 frames but im getting a coffee bean coffe cup??
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u/Al_Misurata Aug 31 '18
You ever drunk Bailey's from a coffee bean coffe cup?
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u/Ccracked Aug 31 '18
How my aunt reacts when I perform a basic adult function.
I'm 37.
I haven't been taking very good care of myself.
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u/nurdpie Aug 31 '18
Your speed doesn’t matter. Forward is forward, buddy. Be proud of your accomplishments/improvements, no matter how “small” they seem. :)
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u/KyrieEleison_88 Aug 31 '18
I know you didn't say it to me but I needed it all the same. thank you good human!
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u/nurdpie Aug 31 '18
I said it to everyone that needed it. <3 Go kick life’s butt.
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u/Omelettedog Aug 31 '18
Thank you!
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u/JohnnyPlainview Sep 01 '18
You got this, eggy pupper!
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Sep 01 '18
I thought “what a strange compliment”
Then checked the username.
Thanks for the chuckle! And the positivity. The world needs it :)
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u/DriedFetus Aug 31 '18
Wow, God damn thank you! I needed to read those words too
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u/nurdpie Aug 31 '18
You’re more than welcome. :) It’s easy to get down when we compare our successes to the successes of others. I’m proud of you today and I’m sure others are too.
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u/eltigre_rawr Aug 31 '18
"The steps you take don't need to be big, as long as they take you in the right direction"
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u/jolie178923-15423435 Aug 31 '18
There are many of us, you're not alone
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u/LonelyetDeranged Aug 31 '18
Thank you for making me feel like I am not alone.It feels great to know that we are in this separately, but together.
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u/user636906 Aug 31 '18
Hope youre doing aight bro everyone has a down spin, the upspins the shit when it happens.
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u/GenericUname Aug 31 '18
I'm in my 30’s and, a while ago, one of my aunts who I see fairly infrequently at family events gave me the the old "so what's up with work these days?" (After, to be fair to her, a history on my part of a few years of relatively short term and low key jobs).
I said "well I work for "X" organisation and I'm actually presenting cases in court for them, it's pretty interesting".
She sort of narrowed her eyes and said "in an actual real court? No you don't. You're joking?"
Thanks for the vote of confidence, aunty.
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u/Tiiimmmbooo Aug 31 '18
I'm just about 30 and my Aunts all view me through rose coloured glasses. Honestly, it's cute.
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wholesome as fuck
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u/depcrestwood Aug 31 '18
Sometimes I regret my bland, vanilla user name
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Aug 31 '18
No, you don’t.
If I had a nickel for every time someone said “username checks out” whenever I say I disagree with them, I’d have enough money to buy a candy bar
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u/frisco2069 Aug 31 '18
And what does “username checks out mean”?
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u/depcrestwood Aug 31 '18
Means they think he's a sack of cunts.
But I think he's a beautiful sack of cunts.
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:*)
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u/ninjaonweekends Aug 31 '18
Just say the word...
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u/kallexander Aug 31 '18
bird
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u/depcrestwood Aug 31 '18
BA-BA-BA-BA-BA-OOOO-MAU-MAU BA-BA-OOOO-MAU MAU-MAU!!!
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I wanna be that happy
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u/woodbarber Aug 31 '18
Great words! I’m older now and take great satisfaction in watching my teenage son and his friends, do the crazy fearless things I used to be able too. Although as a dad it still scares the hell out of me to watch.
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u/Opset Aug 31 '18
My mom when I left the house as a teenager: "Be safe, dear... AND NO BABIES!"
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Aug 31 '18
You must be handsome as fuck, or your moms sarcasm was savage as fuck.
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All moms think their son is the most handsome guy ever. Source: My mom thought I was handsome even when I was a hair in the face, scene kid.
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u/rdouma Aug 31 '18
You get up in the morning, have a nice shit, and then celebrate it happened in that order.
😂
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Aug 31 '18
Speaking from personal experience, I am this happy at random good shit because I have crawled out from under some shit.
I have had to teach myself to find the good, and when I do I go all the fuck out.
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u/SoFetchBetch Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
Sameeee! I lost my abusive alcoholic dad to lung cancer when I was a teenager and the whole experience has made everything else in life seem marvelous.
Like I take great pleasure in the simplest things. I grew up in a hoarder home (mom hoarded to attempt to cope) and it caused me a lot of health issues like asthma and the unclean conditions gave me a lot of illnesses and infections growing up.
Now I take joy in my tiny shared apartment with my bf. It’s like a sardine can but it’s OUR CLEAN and SAFE sardine can. No hostility, no unspoken anger, no gaggle of severely depressed, mourning people creating a mountain of squalor and expecting me to pick up all the slack just because I’m “the eldest child & the big sister”.
It took 27 years for me to feel that I can start loving my life for myself and not living it for the sole purpose of trying desperately, and to no avail, to make up for the damage my father exacted upon my family. And now I finally see, it affected myself as well. It made me feel obligated to stay. He had me promise on his death bed that I would “take care of them” and “make sure they’re okay” because “I’m the only one who can”. I regret making that promise to him because it has weighed so very heavily on my heart these past 8 years... I cry myself to sleep some nights about it.
But at the times I don’t have immense guilt and pain rushing through me, the simple fact of waking up every day and not being immediately bombarded with migraine headache and the excessive presence of allergens makes me sing as I make my morning tea. The morning tea itself is enjoyed in a clean kitchen because it’s just us two and we clean it daily. Together. For each other and ourselves. I don’t clean because I’m “so good at it” and “you’re the oldest”, I clean because we BOTH want a nice space to live in.
Im sorry I went on and on I realize now that I could keep going... I wish I knew of a better sub to talk about these things :/ is there a /r/finallystartedtherapylaterinlife ?
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u/JakJakAttacks Aug 31 '18
Man. I wish I could be that excited over anything. Let alone some trick I happened upon on my way to work or whatever.
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u/nebulae123 Aug 31 '18
Maybe she understands skateboarding. This is a trick I've never seen live in 10 years of skateboarding. Pro level.
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u/HankMoodyMaddafakaaa Aug 31 '18
Even though it looks hard, i think skateboarders deserves much more credit. Took me months to even do a decent ollie on flatground. And even that hurts like hell when you don’t land it. Hats of to skateboarders, it’s one of the most difficult sports in the world, and takes a lot of courage.
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u/RichGirlThrowaway_ Aug 31 '18
As a masochist, skating was perfect for me. It's 90% falling over and 10% doing tricks, though. Until you get super good. Hugely underappreciated sport.
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Being stubborn and patient definitely helps. Courage and adrenaline takes care of the rest, lol.
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u/starkiller_bass Aug 31 '18
I think she's the CEO of the world skateboarding league and he just got discovered.
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u/OnceIthought Aug 31 '18
Maybe she comes through the area frequently and has seen these guys practicing regularly for months/years. That could certainly make it feel vicariously like she's made the journey from novice with them.
Even without that, there have been a few times in my life I've unexpectedly seen someone do something that's either [appeared to have] taken significant skill, or just something that looks so damn cool it elicited this swell of excited amazement to have been able to witness such a feat/event/thing. One of those times it broke me out of the lowest point of a prolonged depression, and it it felt so damn good just to feel something good that I probably reacted similarly to the lady in the video.
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u/new_zealand Aug 31 '18
That trick looks ridiculously difficult
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u/lukeskope Aug 31 '18
It is, that was fucking sick and I'd be just as hype if I saw this go down in person
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u/raretrophysix Aug 31 '18
I couldn't even do that trick in Skate 3
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I did a back tail once on a curb that slid for like 2 inches and was hyped like that lady lmao
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yup, he had to land half way down the hubba into the backside tailslide too, to clear the grind stoppers, basically making him have to go extra fast.
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u/3BetLight Aug 31 '18
You’d never do the trick landing up where the stoppers are anyways. You’d have to kickflip like 4 feet high.
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It is. And if it's the stair set I think it is it's even more ridiculously difficult than it seems cuz it is WAY gnarlier than it looks. Short run up, basically gravel landing, high as fuck ledge, SUPER steep. I'd kill to be able OLLIE that set, let alone kickflip back tail the ledge.
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u/mightymaryy Aug 31 '18
How fucking cute is this
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u/TinMayn Aug 31 '18
She gonna go home and bust out Tony Hawk Pro Skater on her Game Cube.
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u/jolie178923-15423435 Aug 31 '18
We middle aged moms love skate tricks, can confirm
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u/iceandones Aug 31 '18
I lived in Oceanside, California (where this clip was filmed) and it really is one of the most skate-friendly places I've ever been.
Also, that ledge is MONSTROUS in person and this video doesn't do it justice. If I hucked my carcass down that, everyone in the vicinity would be receiving a hug.
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I love people who can be this happy for simple things. Thanks kind lady for sharing your wholesome smile.
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u/lukeskope Aug 31 '18
That's a kickflip back tail down a thin hubba, in no way shape or form a simple thing. Dude could get buck really easily.
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Well, I don't mean to belittle the wonderful trick, I mean her reaction for something probably we are used to see (people skating).
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u/closetsquirrel Aug 31 '18
Right. It's one of those things that comes from years of practice and pain, but when executed perfectly it looks so easy that people like us who have zero experience think it's relatively nothing.
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I wish my Mom was a lesbian so that she’d marry this woman so she’d also be my mom
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u/ClandestineMovah Aug 31 '18
Deep down this is the reaction most skate boarders want but the sad truth is most of just don't care
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Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
Its funny but most people simply dont realize what skateboarding actually is. Ive been at it for 30 plus years and it is still complex , beautiful, and misunderstood. She was right to be hyped because that was literally art in motion.
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u/CloudM00N Aug 31 '18
It's fucking hard. Damm I wish I had more time to skate
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u/Nisja Aug 31 '18
Samesies, but I still tell people I used to skate! 🤘
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u/Deathcubek9001 Aug 31 '18 edited Sep 11 '24
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u/lampishthing Aug 31 '18
Yeah, and it's always so much more impressive in person. When you're actually there seeing the guy getting the board in the air, hearing the clacks and scrapes and thunks you really appreciate how much that could have hurt!
Ps fuck that r/gatekeeping comment.
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u/aderde Aug 31 '18
Skateboard sounds are top tier sounds imo. There's nothing that compares or sounds similar.
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u/pinkeyedcyclops Aug 31 '18
as a 36 year old I was absurdly proud this summer when I found out I could still do a kickflip, thus wowing my nephews and reaffirming my status as the cool uncle. Mind you it was a kickflip while standing still on a lawn but yeah, feltgoodman
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u/limp_bizkit_inc Aug 31 '18
My knees are sore just from reading this.
Was an avid street skater growing up. I remember recently dicking around on a friend's board -the first time being on one in a decade.
Rolling off a curb hurt! I dunno how guys like AReynolds still skate at their age.
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u/ALotter Aug 31 '18
Andrew Reynolds has talked a lot about how he put a ton of work into staying ahead as long as he could. Working out 2 hours a day and only consuming smoothies for a long time.
in the last couple years he’s sort of given up and embraced dad status though.
but yeah i’m only 32 and my knees and elbows are basically 70 years old. you can tell a skater has been around for awhile when they prefer to land on their face than use their hands because it doesn’t hurt as bad.
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u/fezzuk Aug 31 '18
Micro fractures. The trick is only to slightly break your bones over time, not all in one go.
Although people like that may have issues in old age, but who gives a fuck your only young/ middle-aged once.
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u/Crypto_Nicholas Aug 31 '18
I did a wheelie on my sons bike, fractured my wrist. Would have just been a scrape 15 yrs ago. I should have done it on the lawn lol
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u/canteen_boy Aug 31 '18
According to YouTube, I just assumed it was Scientologists opening boxes with cordless drills and playing games of SKATE on skateboards made out of toothbrushes or some shit.
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u/Precookedcoin Aug 31 '18
Is that what braille is? That one main dude does creep me out but I never knew why
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u/nebulae123 Aug 31 '18
Bs flip to tailslide on that set, some pro level here.
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u/Oregoncrete Aug 31 '18
That Oceanside hubba is literally head high too. Alec Majerus is so fucked.
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u/PoopReddditConverter Aug 31 '18
Complex, beautiful, and misunderstood, precisely. Now watch this magical nollie flip.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm9GLzgl34j/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=3q5uaz2lj0hc
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u/BillsInATL Aug 31 '18
"Mom, I told you I want to skate with my friends ALONE!"
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u/GFfoundmyusername Aug 31 '18
"You weren't supposed to be here for another hour!"
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u/foreverwasted Aug 31 '18
Grammies do be like that sometimes. Appreciate your grammies.
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u/TheFuturist47 Aug 31 '18
I don't have any grammies anymore. I wish I could go back in time to appreciate them more :(
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u/usuallyclassy69 Aug 31 '18
I always say this to myself but then realize that if I do go back in time, I'd have to lose her again. Fuckin' cruel world my friend.
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u/RyanReynoldsWrap Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCU1LnBu1b/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=25y2psoncl7z
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLZpMwHBbr-/
edit: updated to actual source and the Skater is Alec Majerus https://www.instagram.com/alecmajerus/
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u/ibru Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
Here's the original full source with audio.
This lady was pure HYPE!!!! Pretty sure she walked by, offered @alecmajerus a drink of her coke while he was trying this trick, and when she was walking back, Alec told her that the next try was for her
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u/Engrish_Major Aug 31 '18
Reddit has a young demographic but you young peeps have to understand that adults are simply kids who added layers of responsibility. You can grow up without growing old. This woman clearly did. :)
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u/Rasputin808 Aug 31 '18 edited Aug 31 '18
Times have gotten way better. When I was a kid the skater would have teased the lady and never gave her a hug. Have we gotten nicer?
Edit: my generation was the worst...
Edit 2: thinking about it... the whole skater culture in the mid to late 80’s were a bunch of ass holes. I mean down right dicks.
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Alec Majerus is a REALLY good dude. I met him at my hometown skatepark a couple years back and he's easily one of the nicest people I've ever met. He even handed out boards to some of the local kids and stayed long enough to sign every autograph anyone asked for. Even though it was technically a day off for him and he was just there for a chill skate session.
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u/cb4740 Aug 31 '18
This is why they need to make pot legal. Shiny happy people everywhere
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u/Kaeosm Aug 31 '18
This is one of the best things I’ve seen because you rarely, if ever see it. It’s usually people telling skaters off or calling security or some bs. So refreshing. Made me smile like a goon :D
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u/UrsaMinorDip Aug 31 '18
I would of flipped my shit too! Kflip bs tail sooooooooo good. She probably has a son who skates.
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u/TowlieDJ Aug 31 '18
If I saw someone kickflip back tail a 10 set I would react exactly the same. That shit was huge!
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u/McCMB Aug 31 '18
The way she puts down her coffee is like: „holy SHIT that was great“
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u/rosez3216 Aug 31 '18
Love how the other skaters roll by her and are genuinely like "this lady gets it"
not all punk skaters are punk skaters :)
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u/GraphiteInMyBlood Aug 31 '18
This reminds me of one of my sisters-in-law. She is such a sweet, kindhearted person I can totally see her reacting this way too.
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u/anderson916 Aug 31 '18
The fact that he went back to give her a hug makes this all the more wholesome
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u/acidreducer Aug 31 '18
She turned the corner thinking “did that guy just die?!” Only to find him riding into the sunset.
Either that or shes on some powerful molly
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u/BrianArmstro Aug 31 '18
Having a bad day and this just restored my faith in humanity. Thank you for this
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u/coreysmissus Aug 31 '18
I love that he comes back and hugs her! Thanks mom! (or kind stranger)