Sometimes, you tag along with your friends to the skatepark. Tonight is one of those times. It's nice out. Not too cold, not too hot. You're sitting a couple feet back from the lip of the bowl, catching your breath. Observing, for now.

Abruptly, your eyes fall on a skater. A young guy. He looks like he's getting off the bowl, and he makes it up and over the lip, but just as he's going to land -- he skids, stumbles, and absolutely eats shit. You wince. Looks like no broken bones, at least.