Scooter Board

Date: 7/1/2025

I'm using a Scooter Board because I can't walk very well (arthritis), to travel through the shopping plazas in town. Goes fast. Has breaks on the handles. I got the steering down pretty smooth. I can go everywhere except the more rugged terrain, like the dirt hills by the wooden sound barriers to the highway I meet a pro skater by the dirt hills who mistakes me for a kindred spirit. He insists on pouring water from his jug into my mouth and it spills all over. The water is warm and not refreshing. Then he says, "Damn! I forgot that water has been in this jug for a year." Yikes! Hope I don't die. I had my own water bottle but can't find it. Can't find my Scooter Board, either. Now he knows I'm not a pro. He suggests I look at the dirt hills. I figure it will be gone, but as I get closer I can see other people's humble belongings on shelves, high up against the sound fence. And there's my Scooter Board! Good, because I can't walk, although nobody notices as I climb, hands and feet, gripping around the rocks of the dirt hills. Skaters don't steal from skaters!