All these stories remind me of a time me and fellow gray hair buddy were having our usual late AM weekend session at the local.
The local park is right in the middle of what's basically a sports park with a public pool, basketball courts and baseball fields surrounding the skate park. There's a fence around the park that helps to keep people from just walking across or into the skatepark.
We are doing our thing and then some youngish kids show up with no board, they are running around in the run up spot and being in the way, whatever, then they start fighting and the younger one is getting worked and crying. So, I say hey guys break it up, if you want to run around and stuff go to the playground or fields right over there. They are being a little mouthy and I say just leave us alone please.
They run off and then I see them talking to who I guess was their dad who is outside the fence. I see them pointing over at us, so we roll over there to try to talk things out and let the adult know what is going on. He flips out, tries to jump the fence to be a tough guy and almost eats shit doing that. Angry Dad looks to be in his late 20’s early 30’s. Me and my friend are late 40’s.
He's ready to brawl and we are trying to get him to chill and explain that the skatepark is for skating not running around and fighting, there is no beef, we just want to skate and that you wouldn't be doing this on the basketball court if someone was playing a game. Their response is that the park is for everyone and fuck you.
Eventually a contentious truce is struck. We try skating some more.
Then a third kid shows up that seems to belong to this pack. He has a board, so now they are all taking turns on it or hanging out in the run up talking shit to us.
I get fedup and tell them to fuck off and leave us alone. They go back to Dad and now he is fucking livid and will not settle down. He wanted to have it out. So, my homie and him yell at each other some more and by that time I'm over the session and just want to go, so we leave while fucko Dad is still yelling and trying to start something. I'm glad nothing happened that day and I always wonder how far Dad would have gone, he seemed pretty unhinged. He was not in the shape he needed to be to try to take on two skaters with boards in their hands. I'm not trying to fight at the skatepark, especially a Dad with his kids. in tow.