Skateboards are not just kids toys theyre more like a lifestyle.Uf u like it, you may end up skating all your life and not only thru your teenage years, most people dont understand this but there are a lot of people inm their 30s and even 40s still skating and just having fun....whats wrong with that?
Its like if youre 35 and like football, theres nothing weird about it.But if you like other spor, in this case skateboarding, people freak out.
Anyway i dont think it was a good idea for this pilot to carry the skateboard in view, it would have been better if he had put in inside a backpack, just to avioid this kind of critisism.
On another note, one day i was in the shuttle between the car rental area and the airport, in pilot uniform, when this older fellow tells he me likes my watch and ask what brand is it?
I told him it was NIXON, and he says he likes the watch but never heard of that brand before, i tell him its a brand that specializes in the surf/skate market, he ask me where i got the watch and i tell him that an skateshop, and hes surprised and ask me if i like skateboarding and i say yeah i do.
and he says "but youre a pilot" and i go yeah, and he says "i dont wanna ride in a plane with a pilot that skates like a 17 yr old kid" hahaha
thats why i dont think its a good idea to carry the skaboard in view to everyone.
Later