Random story...
In 9th grade, these two stoner kids, one fat and one pretty shrimpy, were obsessed with these things and used to always slide this waist-high rail outside our science building. I brought my board to school one day, and the fat one told me that skateboarding sucked, and I should get a pair of Soaps.
Later that, the fat dude was sliding on the same rail, slipped off, gashed his shin open, and needed a bunch of stitches. I felt pretty vindicated! After that, neither one of them wore those dumb ass shoes again.