you know you're getting old when...

[carbonite]

• you have appointments at the office buildings where you used to get arrested for skating
• you enroll one of your kids at the school you used to skate at
• you clean off after skating using the ubiquitous wipes in your car
• one of your kids is starting camp tomorrow, so you make an obscure "I'm going to camp tomorrow" Tom Penny 411#2 reference that nobody gets but you
• you skate with kids that wear "vintage metal" shirts from concerts that you attended

[MexicanSpaniard]

Thanks for making me feel young.

[bothersome]

*you had the original board a company reissues and the kid didnt even know it was a reissue
*you talk about skating street spots that aren't really spots (ie:waxed sidewalks,parking blocks)
*your first board was by a board company that has been killed and brought back more than twice
*you skated in a time when 58mm wheels were considered "small"
 
 

[H8R part 4]

*when every sentence that comes out of your mouth starts with "back in the day"...

[FriedChickenAndKoolAid]

*when every sentence that comes out of your mouth starts with "back in the day"...

Your avatar makes me giggle

[Choad Muskrat]

I can't wait to have kids and live vicariously through them. I'll be the best scoach ever.

Until then I won't consider myself old.

[Mouth]

- Your first transworld had a freestyler on the cover.

[rocklobster]

I can't wait to have kids and live vicariously through them. I'll be the best scoach ever.

Until then I won't consider myself old.

my kid better be born with half-cabs on his feet....  a couple of years back i was shopping for skate shoes and i came across this pair of brown gum accels in kids size and i thought to myself "if/when my kid skates, im going to make sure he wears these"...

-ollieing down 6 stairs never seemed so intimidating
-your back and feet hurt from a day of skating
-you dont skate because your tired
-your lucky if you can land a flip trick in under 10 tries
-muska was the best skater ever when you were skating
-skate bag companies were legit sponsors

[sweatloaf]

You tied an onion to your belt. That was the style at the time

[TheFrontSeatLife]

Righteous Simpsons ref.

[Tuna]

you're the only one at the park wearing neon spandex shorts

[brownjenkin]

When after seeing some of the girls hanging around the park, the only thing you can do is go home and beat off while punching yourself in the face because jail would not be nice place to go to.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

I don't think I am really old yet, but I have gotten some signs I'm no kid anymore:
-You skate tranny because ollieing into grinds on ledges seems like too much work today.
- Jumping down stairs starts to seem more and more pointless.
-8-10 hours of skating today? Not going skating tomorrow, I'll be sore.

[nocomply]

when you see a photo of yourself and for a brief second you think it's a picture of Lee Ralph.

when kids at the skatepark ask you how old you are, and then just stare at you in a confused manner when you tell them your age.

[rocklobster]

-you watch old footage of yourself and your wearing stuff from companies that are now-defunct
-you watch old footage of yourself and its before the time you (or rather i) started wearing contacts
-you watch old footage of yourself and wonder what the hell inspired you jump on the fashion bandwagon of the time (scarfs out the back pocket, flexifit caps, puffy shoes)

[frankie]

when you ve been skating longer than most of the people at the spot have been alive

[brownjenkin]

You're having more and more conversations with yourself because you're used to skating alone so much.

[Sleazy]

- when you've been stoked on rector aggressors
- when you still find a head gasket in your sock drawer from time to time
- when your stoked to see high top skate shoes again
- when your playing skate and you say "it was a half cab one foot" and the kid your playing with says "you mean north?"
- when you have explained the benifits of early morning sessions
- when watching a video and you rewatch the tuck knee\stale fish down the stairs over and over

[aojiru]

You remember thinking it was was odd to not have rails on a board.
You thought anything under 147 was small for a truck.
You remember when a big nose was like 4 inches.
You remember thinking it was weird to not put risers on your board.
You gravitate towards the older skaters and play the 'what ever happened to so and so?' game.
Are kind of bummed since Powell, Vision and Santa Cruz (to some extent World, Blind and Element also) aren't anywhere as sick as they used to be.
Wish you could put Grind King or Deadbolt kingpins on your trucks because the trucks they make suck.
Talk nostalgically about products which sound like bad ideas but were wildly popular for some reason.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

The only skate brand clothes you have are made by brands that have been out of business for years (I still have a ton of droors clothes)

[Sleazy]

you know the pain that comes from missing a ho ho and having the board hit your hand

[SFblah]

Your older than the security guard and pretty positive that he was in diapers when you first skated that spot.

[Nancy Chin The Manicurist]

Beethoven is blasting on your Osiris G-Bag.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

You see one of the older kids who skated and got you to start skating, and he is wearing a suit, has a fat gut, a wife, kids,and hasn't stepped on a board in over 10 years.

[MexicanSpaniard]

The only skate brand clothes you have are made by brands that have been out of business for years (I still have a ton of droors clothes)

I still have 3 Droors shirts, one of the only skate clothing brands I ever liked but I don't wear them outside.

Gator wasn't in jail when you started skating.

[rocklobster]

-having shirts with companies that didnt suck (yet)

my brother bought me a couple of shirts for christmas from krew and element... then they got all shitty...

[H8R part 4]

The only skate brand clothes you have are made by brands that have been out of business for years (I still have a ton of droors clothes)

I still have 3 Droors shirts, one of the only skate clothing brands I ever liked but I don't wear them outside.
Gator wasn't in jail when you started skating.

i have a bunch of skate t-shirts.
i'm wearing a stereo red foxx shirt right now.
i try to rock what i sell and/or support.


* when you stop doing fliptricks.
* when all you do at a new spot is ollie stuff.   

[Vov Vurnquist.]

you niggas busy gettin old while Icequist just keep it cold
behold... your testes have up and grown some mold
goatee on Vov's chin since he base jumped out that pussy fold
when Voverts pubes grown in, they look like Acapulco Gold
switch backside flip the mega, man Vov cannot be controlled
till the grave Quist will be bold, puttin sluts in anal submission holds

[Sleazy]

- if you've ever had to relearn your flip tricks the new way (caught with pop instead of just landing on them)

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

-having shirts with companies that didnt suck (yet)

my brother bought me a couple of shirts for christmas from krew and element... then they got all shitty...

I don't remember krew ever being cool,  but the amount of og world and blind shit that I am ashamed to wear now that I have is way up there.
Anybody still wearing OG plan b gear? One of my friends was so pissed that they came back for that reason alone.