Re: Skate Park

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 03:21 PM 4/16/2001 -0700, Kacey Krehbiel wrote:
>I agree with you, we can find good at bad places....

Kacey,

Don't forget that the reverse is true:  We can also find bad in good 
places.  I take it that you are saying the skate park is "not your 
thing."  Well, that's fine.  But I don't think you are doing anybody a 
service by insinuating that it is a bad thing, and that predominantly bad 
people hang out there.

I remember suggesting to my little sister that she should take a 
woodworking class in high school.  She said, "I don't want to be in a class 
with a bunch of burnouts!"  Well, I loved woodworking in high school, and I 
certainly was no burnout.  Indeed, a lot of stereotypical "druggies" were 
in shop classes, but so were a lot of jocks.  And a lot of just plain nice 
people.  But I didn't go to woodworking class for any of the above; I went 
to those classes because I loved to take a hunk of wood and transform it 
into a cedar chest, or a cupboard, or a smoothly polished bowl.  I enjoyed 
some of those people, and "dealt with" the others, because they were around 
something that I loved to do.  If you don't like skating, then you don't 
have to go to the skate park and deal with the people who hang out there.


Bob Hoffmann
846 Mabelle St.
Moscow, ID  83843

Tel: 208 883-0642
Fax: 877 495-2279