i'll share two stories, one i'm ashamed of, one i'm stoked on
first one involves marcus mcbride back in 2010, night time session at the library in SF, i was just catching up with homies there and then we were supposed to go skate and film throughout the whole night, that was when yoan taillandier and leo valls were there to film for the first magenta hill street blues video. so i arrive there, say hi, skate for a while, take a break. then a certain other skater shows up and yoan is like holy shit, that's marcus mcbride ! dude shows up with a massive blunt, smokes half of it then passes it around and proceeds to skate like it's nothing. i watch him skate and the blunt eventually reaches our group and i'm surprised to see noone's really touched it. jimmy lannon is sitting next to me and gets the thing, takes one hit, starts coughing up like crazy (if you've ever been around him, you know that never happens) and passes it over to me right away. so here i am sitting on the corner of the ledge with nearly half a blunt and noone else wants it, so i just go on to smoke the whole thing like it's nothing - marcus mcbride is still killing it in front of me after all so what could go wrong. 15 mins later the whole shit kicks in and i'm absolutely knocked off my shoes, fucking destroyed. can't move my legs, cold sweating, shaking. i was fairly new to smoking weed at the time (started late), but i don't think that was it. never in my life had i been so smashed and the dude in front of me was there doing perfect 360 flips and shit. i waited for what felt like an hour to try and gather my spirits and tried to stand on my board, i usually enjoy skating high but that time felt impossible. everyone started to dip to go film, when i just wanted to go to sleep and hadn't even had a meal in forever so i said fuck it, said good bye, dragged my ass out of there and on the way home i hit up the fucking carl jr's, ordered a fat menu and just sat in there for a while, trying to eat but really probably just looking stupid smearing the greasy shit fries all over my face.
other, better story is a lot more recent and involves teaching yaje popson ollie impossibles and seeing him land his first ones ever in front of me thanks to my tips. dude was genuinely stoked on them too. i've been hyped on that memory like a little kid and waiting for footage of him doing one at a spot to pop up ever since