Friday, October 3, 2008

Storytime: Skateboard P Goes To Juvie







I was just sitting back thinking about random crazy events from my youth and thought about an incident from the sixth grade. So everyone gather around to listen to the story "Skateboard P Goes to Juvie".






This story takes place in an urban middle school in the heart of the hood in Newport News Virginia. It was a little after lunch and I was sitting in Mr. Barnes' class fighting the "itis" and listening to him talk about something that I really didn't care about. Next thing I know I hear Ca-kunk, ca-kunk, kunk © Lupe Fiasco . As soon as I said to myself "That sounds like a skateboard", I see this dude go flying by the doorway on a skateboard. Now, I know it's now not out of the ordinary to see a inner city black kid skateboarding today, back in 1989 you really didn't see much. So that struck me as odd. So Mr. Barnes stopped mid-sentence and gave the class a look like I know this fool aint riding a skateboard in the hallway. Next thing I know, Mr. Barnes just took off out of the door. Now Mr. Barnes was about 5'6 and 350 pounds but he took off like Christain Okoye from the Kansas City Chiefs.



So the class sat there in silence still shocked that (A) this fool was skateboarding in the hallway and (B) Mr. Barnes was that damn fast.









So about 5 minutes has passed when Mr. Barnes walked back into the classroom with his hands behind his back. All of a sudden he cracks a smile and holds up the skateboard in one hand like he just won the WWF championship belt.




The class went crazy. People were cheering, giving high fives, and one chick got up and started doing the Cabbage Patch.





So after the class had calmed down and Mr. Barnes went back to teaching we hear a knock at the door. It was the school guidance counselor, the school resource officer (security guard), and Skateboard P. The guidance counselor comes in the room and says "Mr. Barnes, this young man has an apology he'd like to give you". Skateboard P with dried tears on his face sniffles and says "YOU BEST TO GIVE ME BACK MY SKATEBOARD, OR I'M GONNA KILL YOUR MOTHERFUCKING ASS". So the school resource officer quickly puts him in the full nelson and escorts him out the class and down the hall. Mr. Barnes leaves out of the class and goes down towards the principals office. 5 minutes later, we look out of the window and see Skateboard P being loaded into a police car.




After Mr. Barnes returned, he had us all write witness reports as Skateboard P caught a charge for threatening the teacher.






I wonder what happened to Skateboard P. Mr. Barnes never said what happened when he went to court and dude never came back to school. I pray that he got his life together and isn't out on the streets threatening people.

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