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@SimonFFM - I was thinking of you the other day (steady!) - I was trying to teach my daughter to cycle in the park and there was a 'mid-thirty something' tall guy learning to skateboard with his generously indulgent partner somehow entirely restraining what I would've assumed would be an overwhelming desire to drop to the floor laughing.
He looked like an '80s middle class kid with their first skateboard - one of those weird-shaped ones that I don't think real skaters ever used, and wearing a full battle armour of kneepads, shinpads, elbowpads and helmet, none of which matched his otherwise very polite attire.
I passed at one point and overheard his partner offering to gently push him along a bit as he was struggling to achieve anything otherwise. It was very sweet. If anything, I'm kind of in awe about how little he gave a fuck.