Not really an awkward encounter for me but it had to have been for the kid involved.
It's the 90's, Clantee park is new and someone I was with was way too overzealous to skate that shitty park cuz I was there on what felt like opening day. Seemed like a hundred groms playing criss-cross-crash and 1 oldtimer just flying thru the place dodging tictaccers left and right.
I'm walking up and I see Peanut at a bench so I chill with him and watch the kids. He looks like he's waiting on someone and seems pretty bummed, maybe that's the awkward part for me.
Anyhow. Oldtimer turns out to be Acosta, or so I've heard, idk the guy.. He's flying around trying to get speed to air the hip. You know when you're walking towards someone and you both do the stutter step to avoid each other? Acosta and this kid did that, but Acosta is charging and the kid kept tictaccing into his path, Acosta would carve the other way.. They were 60-80ft apart (maybe farther?) at the beginning and must have juked back and forth 4-5 times. It was like watching a slo-mo train wreck.
Finally they collide and the kid just gets body checked to the face/helmet. Dude tried to catch/block the kid before the hit but he missed. Ends up holding this knocked out grom by one arm, just dangling there like a teddy bear. I'm thinking omg what a bad position to be in, what's this guy gonna do? He waits a few secs and the kid isn't waking up so he turns to the row of a dozen or so mom's "watching" their kids at the park and asks if it's their kid. He asked several times still holding the limp grom by 1 arm. Seriously, none of them even noticed. I'm thinking shit, he's screwed, cops, ambulance, crappy day, what's a guy to do? Apparently gently lay the kid down on the ground and skate off. About 30sec later I heard some lady scream, "MY BABY!!". Don't remember the rest. Think the kid woke up in a daze, don't remember him having to be carted away.