Monday, May 28, 2012

The Loss of Favorite Spots

It's always nice when your rollerblader finds a spot that they love to skate and is safe because it never gets busted.  You know that you never have to worry about them getting messed with by cops and they always come home in a great mood because they love that spot.  Occassionally, they will lose that spot.

So many people loved the Strom Thurmond building!  This place had perfect ledges, was sort of hidden off the street, and I also appreciated the fact there was a water hose because South Carolina in the middle of August was ridiculous.  Enough so that the newspaper heading one year was "Columbia, the screen door to hell" true story.  Years of love and good times were taken away when they increased security.  It went from hours of skating to when you walk up to the building and are holding your skates they kick you out. 

I think there are random, covert, skate operations in the works where they'll all bust out of nowhere at some ridiculous hour just so they can feel the ledges again.  I almost have the visual of Prayer of the Rollerboys in my head without the trench coats... I hope.

If it's not a place where they can or need to increase security, they could potentially cap it.  Good news, the plastic ones sometimes they can sometimes pop off.  This I don't understand at all.  If people are so worried about preserving things then why the hell do they cap it?  So you have a ledge that is getting a little warn or chunked by skateboarders... your solution is to put these hideous caps every foot?  In your attempts to preserve history or the architecture you make it hideous and render it useless?  Could it be that these ledges are also a part of rollerblading history? 

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