just meeting new skaters and seeing how low the bar of conversation is set is always so disappointing... maybe it's more of the younger ones, the ones in their 30s who are still at it tend to have grown up a little bit and can actually converse like normal humans. but yeah, especially when the high school/early 20s skaters are around each other, they amplify their "coolness"/"stonerness" by acting really high and laughing at the stupidest shit. the older I get, the more everyone's insecurities are just so obvious, almost tangible.