It all started a real long time back, last week to be more precise and the weekend of the 8th, 9th and 10th of February to be spot on. Tom Kirkby was turning 20 and he’s not one to keep such an event quiet. This year we’re talking wristbands to enter, a massive guestlist and a real live DJ! Scott came up to ride for the weekend but I think Tom was busy the first day and me and Scott hit the park. I remember Tom coming to ride street with the Newcastle lot for a bit on Saturday but my memory is gone, sorry! Went to Tom’s party for half an hour and it was just starting to kick off before I had to leave for work. Got to work and my boss just said “to be honest guys, just do what you want tonight” SWEEEET! So we just walked about and talked crap and got paid for it. After such a good night at work I was up for major partying but Tom said nothing was happening after his party and they were being kicked out at 2 so I figured I wouldn’t bother going for 30 mins just to pay for a taxi home on my own and so I stayed after work for ‘a few drinks.’ This quickly got out of hand when we decided to do some ‘aggressive drinking’ and as it was a Saturday and drinks were expensive, house red wine was the beverage of choice...bad idea! We hit VIP and some of the last things I remember was that a random woman, obviously nearing the 30s and having lost all her friends, came and sat at our table. After some terrible drunken pick up attempts and some nasty things about her appearance from workmates she staggered off leaving her drink. Also I got my midriff out a lot, there is a picture of me on facebook of me with my shirt up and it looks as though I’m touching a passed out woman. I also apparently told my boss she was fit and that I would ‘do her.’ She wasn’t too impressed and just said “mate, I’m 28.” Nice...
Well by this point we’d mixed vodka redbulls and bitch pops into the equation and a few bottles of white wine so the rest of the night is a haze. We got to stay until 4am because we work there but I missed the taxi with everyone somehow but thought I’d go wait for Kathryn to finish work and the next thing I remember is Kathryn waking me up on the bench outside her house at 6am after by chance seeing me when she opened her window because she was too hot to sleep! Having broken up with her 3 weeks prior and me being drunk it meant I got back with her, damn!
Next day was horrible and my phone had run out of battery so couldn’t tell Tom and Scott I wasn’t riding. Literally couldn’t move all day and haven’t drank since!
Angus was up the next day but Tom went to Poland so me, Scott and the Gus man hit the park for a while then the Quayside. Angus layed down bangers that I won’t give away but pussed out on a few stunts on Exi bench. I got an opposite wallride to 270 footplant filmed but the wallride sucked and the footplant was sketchy. Not sure Scott got clips but he made me ‘lol’ all day so I’ll let him off! Took a load of funny pics of Scott and some more serious ones before ending up getting all facebook at Get Carter and Tyne Bridge! Like Robbie said earlier in the week, Angus has got the skills to pay the bills both on the bike and behind the lens!
Hit the park a few times that week but always at night except one day time session where I ran into H man and stuff! On one particular evening/night (about 8?) there were som ratty kids asking me if I could hang 10 and do all these tricks. I obliged as far as I could but the previous day I had pedaled away from something and my coaster just shit the bed and something may have flown off which meant I could only scoot for the rest of the week. Anywayz, maybe only stayed for an hour or so and then went back via the Civic Center ‘cos there was a stairset I’d been looking at. Was taking some scoot run ups to test for the fakie hop and it seems good to go when I get pedal power again but anyway, these ratty kids from the park rock up and ask me more questions “can you 180 these stairs” so I do, they go nuts, I’m a pro! Actually ride with the kids for a while on this bank and do some footjam fakies which they shat their pants about and they ask if I wanna hit the uni (these kids are probably about 12) and I say yeah, why not? Ride a cool 2 set, 180 up and down it, try fakie hop but it was a hard, scoot run up! Teach them sliders and then we rode these walls for ages, maybe like 40 mins and I was trying double pegs, ice, smith, toothy off and these kids go “We should call you Chris” I say “Why” and they say “cos you ride like Chris Souter,” ha ha, I wish! So these kids are pretty sound but ask a lot of questions, one kid spent about 6 mins asking me about his profile hubs and if he could run pegs on them. I teach this one kid to do double peg and feeble stalls. He gets super close to ice picks and even closer to smiths but then we are kicked off! People kept walking past as we were riding and I felt a bit odd hanging out with 12 years olds, almost paedophillic but it was cool ‘cos they were full of enthusiasm and it reminded me of when I first started riding and all everyone wanted to do was ride, before girls, work and booze came into the equation! It was pure!
So I’ve worked most nights, hung with Kathryn and gone to uni. Went to see Juno and then to Frankie and Benny’s on Valentines day which was cool. Juno wasn’t funny but was an okay film. Then I had to work but met the girls and Paul and Tommy C in Liquid afterwards for skint night, was pretty cool but everyone was pretty drunk. After a taxi trip back I went round to Laura and Kayleigh’s for a cuppa but Kayleigh went to bed so just chilled with Laura who was trashed. Pretty funny watching her trying to make tea and the various other strange alcohol fueled drinks she made herself and just generally the things she was on about. She’s bought a small plant which she needs to keep alive to prove she would look after the massive plant she wants to buy for the house next year so was raging when I was trying to feed it vodka! She called the plant Basil 40!
Also went to see Jumper which was a good film and I freeeeekin’ love nachos! Might go to the cinema tomorrow if my bike aint fixed!
Finally took my bike to the doctors on Tuesday to get the coaster fixed and my new second hand rim laced onto it with white spokes, sweeet! Hopefully it should be done for when Scott comes up tomorrow but I doubt it. Not even sure if it will be done for Saturday when I go home. Hope it is because I wanna hit Prissick on Sunday!
Well my arm really hurts as it’s hovering as I type due to this being on my knee so I’ll leave it there but I’ll hopefully do daily updates from now on.
See you skanks later x x x x
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