yesterday, I was as at the local doing my thing and this dude moseys his way into the park and sits on the noping hip I love. Didn't care about that, as I was skating whatever else anyway.
What was strange, is the guy was clearly watching and knew something about skating, as he would acknowledge when I landed a trick. However, he would speak quietly out of the side of his mouth, and not look at me when he spoke. I faintly heard things like "yeah yeah, caught that one" or "this guy is blazing rn..." but all while looking around like he's in the Sistine Chapel. I tried to say thanks or something like that, but he didn't even engage me when I spoke directly. Weird, but whatever...
I got my few tricks and went to the shop nearby to say what's up and that. I went back to the park maybe 45 min later, and dude is still there. Same spot, doing the same halfway compliment/stoke but didn't "emote" even once.
My younger friend who completely rips and gets better everyday shows up and starts shitting on the euro (360 flip, BS flip, shuv-heel, bigflip, etc..). He gets to trying cab flip, kinda getting close but not really, and the loiterer tries to give him advice like "you need to focus on your ollie before trying that" or absently "this kid needs to work on his basics"
Confirmed in my mind he was a fucking kook and left