this took place at my family's halloween party about 2 weeks ago:
during the party I ended up hanging out with a few of my friends from work, my sister-in-law, and some of her coworkers. a couple hours into all of us hanging out, the topic of knee injuries comes up as someone there was talking about how they got their ACL repaired recently. I brought up how I've been dealing with knee issues the last few years because of skateboarding, and how I've been skating for over 20 years now. her coworker, a very nice guy (don't want to use his name) who my mom actually took quite a liking to, brought up how his brother also skated, and that he had made it pretty far in the industry.
I've heard people say that their brother or friends or whoever skates and that they were sponsored, but when I ask who they are I inevitably have never heard of them. so I ask who his brother was and he tells me its Devin Bagnoli! I was a couple drinks in at this point and I tripped out!
I told him I've been watching Devin for years, knew about him through the Colorado scene when I used to live out there, and that he was, indeed, very gnarly. essentially, I told him I had followed Devin's career.
his brother was genuinely surprised and was stoked that I knew who Devin was. that was a very cool moment and it just goes to show that the older you get, the smaller the world becomes.
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