There's a parking lot I skate across the street from my apt in the back of some buildings where nobody really drives or parks. It's like a football field long n has a good slappy curb, rough walls to ride, and a shitty manual pad sprinkled around there and that's pretty much it. Sadly enough it's my default place to go if there's nowhere else. Been warming up there/flat rail/flatground sessions for the past 9 years for hours and nobody has said one word ever to me negatively(always positive stuff). Even cops and the patrol are cool with me there on many occasions.
Haven't rode the board as often in the past couple months so decided to take the flat rail there today to see what a tipsy middle aged dude could have fun with. Got warmed up pretty good when some asshole (owner of one of the stores) comes around the corner like a race track. Always place the rail over to the side just so people could drive by but someone else was comin through from the other direction which made him brake suddenly in front of it then wait for the other car to pass to go around it. I laughed out loud, then after a couple moves guy without saying any words starts taking pictures of my rail with his phone n walked away.
Third rate cop pulls up shorty thereafter and basically told him I help keep the riff raff outta here, owner should talk to me like a man (Usually leave after one more try) n should open his eyes and have some patience in a parking lot of all places. Security guy was telling me that the owner was "pussyfied" and went off on a tangent or the next 5 or so minutes how everybody nowadays is a vagina an doesn't wanna deal with things by themselves.
He's yelling this to me as owner was walkin within earshot had to have heard 'officer' callin him a poosey. Smirked at the dude n gave him a thumbs up as he went by. Told Barney Fife I was gonna grind the rail, do a trick n I'm out which I did. After puttin rail in the garage I was fueled to skate by this vagina, went on to skate the area I was around minus flat bar and won skateboarding for the time being.
Like I said, place has been my little shit warm up/session spot for close to ten years, I'll still go there don't get me wrong but thinking this might be the beginning of the end as far as learning/relearning flat rail manuvers there.