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So I was leaving my math class today and right before I was leaving one of the kids said “Wow the weather is being weird today. It’s so foggy.” I looked outside to see thick fog and thought “Wow cool! I love riding my longboard through fog!” So I walked out into the hall while talking to my friend Megan and I proceeded to ride my board down the hall. I’m surprised nobody has told me to get off of it yet. Now I’m very hungry so when I get out the door I tell her that I’ll see her tomorrow and I ride down a steep incline that lasts about 6 feet and then lean so that my board makes the sharp turn to ride down the road. However when I first left the hall the mist hit me but I didn’t think about it. The fog was more of a misty drizzle and the road was wet.

Now we all know that wet roads are slippery but when on a longbaord and moving rather quickly while taking a sharp turn the road is a lot more slippery than you might think. So when I take the turn I feel the board beneath me start to slide. Suddenly it flies out from underneath me and I fall to the ground. I throw my hand out to try to break my fall but my efforts are futile. My right hand deflects part of the blow but my speed sends me tumbling and I roll sending myself tumbling and scraping my chin and lip on the ground. It hurt but not at first. I though my lip was a lot worse than it is actually and there was only a little bit of blood. I look up mutter “Fuck…” and see Megan walking down the incline “Wow that sucks!” she says. I agree and pick up my board. My face aches and my lip feels like its destroyed. She says it isn’t that bad except that there’s a lot of blood on the right side of my chin. So I pick up my board and start walking back to the dorm. 

“It’s a little bit slippery out” I say to her as I pass a car parked and look at my face in the reflection of the window. I didn’t like what I saw and didn’t like the feel of it either. I passed Sam, my friend from Cross Country, and he asked me if I wanted to go get acupuncture… I politely declined. So the moral of the story is always know the conditions of the road before taking a sharp turn on your board! Oh and thank God for laptop backpacks. I had my laptop with me and it’s completely fine.

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