| Personal experiences at a public skatepark. | | | | have the bank in the corner to ride. It is probably |
| Vision this. You and your friends have been riding | | | | not hard to envision for most riders that use the |
| for about an half hour on your BMX bike or | | | | local public skatepark on a regular basis. |
| skateboard at the local public skatepark and | | | | After they are done at the skatepark, will the |
| suddenly a mini van pulls into the parking lot and | | | | little ones go to the softball diamond and use their |
| out of a van, kids between the ages of 3 to 7 | | | | Tonka Trucks on the pitcher's mound during a |
| years old come flying out the sidedoor. They run | | | | ballgame? Or play dolls in a horseshoe pit while |
| past the playground and go straight to the | | | | some one is using the pits exclaiming the park is |
| skatepark, half of them riding bikes with training | | | | entirely theirs to use as much as everyone else? |
| wheels and big wheels and the other half sliding | | | | Of course not. Why do they try it at the |
| down the ramps like a slide at the playground. | | | | skatepark? |
| You go across the skatepark heading towards a | | | | After observing and being part of the strange and |
| quarterpipe and attempt to ice pick it and you | | | | bizarre phenomena for some time, we came to |
| narrowly miss one of the little ones. The freighted | | | | the conclusion that either the parents and kids |
| lad or lassie runs off to mommy or daddy who is | | | | don't really understand what the skatepark is |
| sitting on the picnic table reading a magazine, not | | | | really about, or they are looking for a free ticket |
| paying attention to the kids, gets up and comes | | | | to sue and using their kids to do it, or they really |
| strutting like a rutting buck and proceeds to rip | | | | don't care. |
| you a new one. After hearing a bunch of colorful | | | | Regardless of the reason, the best thing to do is |
| words that would make a sailor blush, you exclaim | | | | leave and ride street or ride your ramps at home |
| that you are sorry and explain that it is a | | | | if you have some. Leaving is the only way to win |
| skatepark designed for skateboarding, BMX bikes | | | | in a situation such as this. Maybe a sign should be |
| and blading. The parent says it doesn't matter, | | | | installed on the skatepark stating "This Skatepark |
| my kid or kids can go wherever they like in this | | | | is designed for BMX bikes, Skateboarding and |
| park. They may even demand that their kids can | | | | Aggressive Inline Skating". |
| use the skatepark for themselves and you can | | | | |