Can’t remember the last time I played skate against someone and they didn’t cheat. I gave my friend like 3 extra letters today and still beat him. I usually don’t mind giving someone an extra letter if they’re not paying attention to the score and I don’t really like jock type confrontation anyway so I never say anything. But jeez how do you miss like 9 tricks and still think you have letters left? My friend eventually starting getting a few letters on me long after I’d technically beat him, it was sooo hard to hold my tongue and not be a jock. Even people who were watching our game were puzzled how this dude had so many attempts. Pay attention to your skate score people, it’s not hard.
I love this take. In my small area I always had the biggest bag of tricks out of who I knew, not a big scene. I wasn't amazing but I had some shit and was consistent. I never liked asking people to play skate, but if someone wanted to play me I would always be down. Yes, everyone of those low life mother fuckers would cheat, except for 1 or 2 of my buddies. I am not very competitive but if someone challenges me, and especially if it's bragging rights, I'll play for keeps. I'd let the first infraction slide, but after that I'd start asking mother fuckers if they want to count that kickflip that rolled on the ground, you dragged your toe, and then came off your board but acted like you meant to. That was all the damn time. I wasn't calling out bullshit, but when you play kids that are happy to land a kickflip 1 out of 10 tries they try to get away with a lot of dumb shit that negates the whole game.
The funniest shit though, I remember taking a game of SKATE challenge very personal. We had a friend that got pretty good. I think he beat me for the first time. I didn't think of it as anything but one of our friends who was
really not great, a day or so later calls me out. "50mm, it's been a long time! I challenge you to a game of SKATE!" That was half my life ago and my friends will still quote, "It's been a long time!" Anyways, I took offense. He heard my buddy got beat me and he thought I wasn't good anymore or something. I just agreed to play and then hit him with the smoke. Boom S, boom K, boom A, boom T. My friend that beat me comes up and says low, "Dude, let him at least get S." Boom SKATE, game was over, and I don't think he ever asked me to play again.
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Oh yeah, I'm not stoked on my attitude the past couple days. I'm in a really shitty mood because I'm stopping smoking for a while. I'm really high strung without either weed or benzo's. It's just something I've accepted recently. I get it from my dad even though being like him is my worst nightmare. Well I'm trying to limit medications as much as possible and since I'm on 2 that work well and make me feel good I smoke weed instead of benzos, weed isn't great for you but I'm managing it really well and I'm afraid of the long term effects of benzo's more than weed. Since I've been honest about my smoking my relationship has been a lot better. Not having to hide smoking was a godsend. Buuuuut, there is still a matter of jobs and drug testing. I always apply for jobs within my employer so I never trip on drug tests. About a month ago I applied for a dream job not expecting shit but so far it's going really well, interview went insanely good, I've talked about all that shit already, great job, free housing, all kinds of cool shit. If they offer it, which I think they will I will need to test. I mean if I have to do it really quick here I'll get someone's piss and cheat the test like that. But who the fuck knows with Covid and all that shit. They could ask me to do a Saliva test or something. So I'm trying to stay clean right now and just do the best I can given the situation.
But Sunday I night I threw my shit out somewhere. I woke up yesterday and couldn't even remember where. I thought I stashed it somewhere or misplaced it, so I was looking for like an hour, finally gave up, but all through the day, take like a minute to look here or there. If you have ever quit weed you probably know how much it sucks to stop cold turkey when you are using daily. I get super irritated, stomach issues, sweating. I always try to taper off but couldn't and wouldn't let myself pickup. So yesterday I was in a shitty mood, and got mad at my girlfriend and pretty much acted like a piece of shit. I took an issue she was going through and made it about me unfairly. Today I did try to apologize, but I don't know. Whenever I do something stupid she is mad for a while where I get over shit really quick. I let myself mutter something and move forward. She was still mad today because we argued last night, which made me mad again, and next thing you know I'm arguing about arguing and mad about being mad.
It was my fault, but fuck man I really do need at least a little credit. Quitting smoking weed for me is really hard. I actually was cleaning out some old stuff yesterday and just by fucking coincidence came across a journal I had tried keeping 8 years ago. The first two pages were about how much I hate myself for smoking weed and how I was trying to quit. I remember trying to quit back then and I remember how hard I was struggling, and here I am 8 years later. And the other crazy thing is it was almost 8 years to the day, it was dated the 10/18/12, I found it 10/19/20. Quitting smoking is really fucking hard, I would pay a lot of money to never have a craving again and still be mellow. I've done AA, NA, CODA, therapy, psych, medication. The weed for me makes things easier, but I also know it can make me lazy at times. My girlfriend has never had any kind of drug issues or alcohol problems. She is very sympathetic but I think it's also hard when you don't know how it feels. I know it's just weed, but it's also a lot of money, opportunities (like this job), social events and shit that have been effected. I really wish she could see that I really was being like that because I have a lot of shit on my plate right now. Not just what I wrote here but plenty more.
Anyways. I'm at least thankful I can write all this out and vent on a skateboarding message board at 12:30 in the morning.