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george
my mom finds it weired that older guys want to hang out with teenagers. i tried to tell her that our age really doesn't matter, we just wana skate. she just doesn't get it. she thinks everybody has these sick plans to butt-rape me or something. skating alone isn't as fun now that i've experienced skating with a group.
Unfortunately, I can't blame her
The world is a phucked up place and she is right to be worried about you. I think if I had a kid, I'd probably be the same way.
Does she have any interest in accompanying you to one of these events? She might have a different opinion if she saw what went on. Sensei has introduced a bunch of kids to skating, partly because it's fun, but also because it gives the kids something to do that keeps them out of trouble and not shooting up heroin. I've done the same thing. I'd much rather see a kid all scabbed up from trying to drop in on a halpipe than see a kid doing too much weed or drunk at 14. I'm no priest or anything, kids are kids and they're probably gonna do that stuff anyway. But it would be better if they were a little older before they had the opportunity
Trying not to sound like a bitter old man or anything, but Sensei and I have discussed this before. We've both done stupid $hit when we were young, and I've lost friends that were waaaaaaaay too young to drugs and alchohol and doing stupid stuff. Funerals for teenagers ALWAYS suck!!!! So we both try to help kids out a little - take 'em skatin', hook 'em up with our old skate gear, show 'em how to drop in, show 'em how to slalom, stuff like that.
And that's why your Mom is lookin' out for you, 'cause she loves your dumb a$$
My Mom let us build a halfpipe in our backyard. Her friends thought she was insane. But her response was, "Hey at least I know what he's doing and who he's hangin' out with!" She was pretty smart for a naggin' old lady!!
And to her credit, I'm still alive! And even MORE surprising, I still hang out with the same 2 guys! Except that we all have jobs and homes and wives and kids of our own
All this being said, don't trip on it too hard. She's really just tryin' to be a good Mom and look out for you. And to her credit, she's doing a good job - you're a good kid, georgey!
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i see what you mean. i'll talk to her and see if she would let me go if she came along, or mabey my dad could come. thanks.
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. You don't even see kids outside playing anymore unless you go through the ghetto. And then people wonder why there kid's fat as a house, or why he has social problems and then they send them to my family's school thinking we can magically fix it, when in reality these are the hardest kids in the world to teach anything too. 
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