I bought a skateboard at age 43

Hello everyone! My name is Bryan. I’m 43 years old and I just bought a skateboard! I guess since I’m not really a car guy that this would be my mid-life crisis. My family thinks I’m crazy, but it’s something I really have always wanted to do. Sure, I had a skateboard when I was 15 and I screwed around on it in my parent’s garage, but I never really took it outside or learned how to properly skate with my friends in my neighborhood. Thank goodness for the internet. I was on YouTube one day watching a few skateboarders just do some freestyle runs (like I normally do on a weekly basis), and I finally decided that it was time to actually buy a board. My current hobby of collecting sports cards and occasionally blogging about it hasn’t really been fun (well the blogging part is, but the collecting part sucks). The enjoyment just isn’t there for me like it used to be. So, at 8:41PM on Friday August 8th, I pulled the trigger on a beginner board. It’s a Positiv Andy MacDonald board with P...