I met Carleigh at Meta. I had just picked up some new shoes to start breaking in and to show what a hypocrite I can be.  You’ll see.  We had originally thought of skating Red Curbs if it was raining, but it wasn’t.  But then when we left Meta it was kind of sprinkling.  While trying to figure it out it started raining harder so the decision was made.  Red Curbs.  We started off doing our own things just skating around and warming up.  I was having a tough time with the Creature tank of a board.  With the exception of a test Sans board years ago (yes, you know how that went) I have only skated Generator wood for six years now (Null was originally on Systems then  Syndrome wood) and it sure felt awkward.  It took like 10 tries to get a kickflip where the tail touched.  Carleigh was mostly trying flatground lines.  I saw lots of kickflips, nollie shoves, etc.  I failed at nose mannys miserably.  I failed at almost everything actually.  Carleigh did some mannies on the short manny pad.  I got a couple front 180 nose mannies on the short one which is about the extent of that trick for me.  Carleigh was working on heelflips and slamming hard.  I was jealous because I was my typical lame self just walking away from bails instead of committing.  I’ll blame the wide ass board I’m skating.  I took a long time to get a front lipslide.  I took forever to get a fakie bigflip.  For some reason I started trying halfcab nose manuals.  Some felt like I could do it.  Most felt like I was just learning how to skateboard (wait, it always feels like that).  I had a couple back lip attempts that were mostly just ollie over the corner to 90 degree wheel pivot.  At the very end I was trying front tailslides (got a couple little ones) and we were both trying flatground tricks over and over.  I saw Carleigh stomp a heelflip then in less than 20 tries land a first ever fakie varial flip.  Sick!  I tried nollie f/s flips and had one that was so close I can’t believe I didn’t get both feet on it.  It took lots of tries to flip that big board around for treflips.  Never got a nollie tre.  Heelflip took awhile too.  We had fun.  We skated hard.  Awesome.