"Do it, dude."

So, it is my firm belief that 80% of all males...are morons.

The other day, I was downtown walking back to the parking garage when a flock of "skater dewds" came rolling along. One of them proceeded to completely fly off of his skateboard, skidded to a stop, and then shuffled off to find his board. A giant grin was plastered across his face. Not a sheepish grin, mind you. A, "Aren't I just totally AWESOME?"

You just wiped out. That's generally not considered bragging material.

Another (more courageous of the flock) decided to take his skateboard up a flight of stairs and was meandering around, deep in thought, musing on whether to attempt coast down that hand rail on his skateboard. Now, after seeing multiple attempts at this trick end in disastrous failure (the bloke crumpled up in the fetal position, whimpering), I cannot imagine that someone would decide to attempt it...in a public place. With all of his friends around.

It is my personal conviction that if you are considering to attempt a trick that has a high percentage of ending in dramatically embarrassing failure, that you practice said trick in secret until you perfect it, in the event that you do it at all.

Well, it looked as though this kid might wisen up. But then his friend uttered three words, *assumes "cool skater dewd" tone* "Do it, dude."

We didn't hang around to see the result of this exhortation, but we assumed that it would just be Natural Selection running its course.

Speaking of which: I got assigned my driving partner. Why, oh why did we have to put down our preferred driving partner so soon. I knew no one, so I put down...nothing. Not that I've made any bosom buddies since then, but at least I could have *possibly* avoided being paired with "Surly, the skinny jean dude." Oh well. He at least said, "Thank you" when I lent him my pen. Well, if worst comes to worst, we'll at least get some blogging material out of it. I actually pity Surly.

Disclaimer: I am proud to say that most of my male friends fall into the remaining "slightly sane" 20%.