Skanking?

[BrianD]

Seriously?

Sorry, but this is the first time I heard about it, or at least that it caught my attention.

In a company newsletter is was talking about different things that people do outside of work and one was described as "an extreme sports athlete" and the next phrase was that he does the extreme sport of skanking.

Sorry but .... SERIOUSLY? Extreme sport?

Not sure what gets me going the most, that he considers himself an extreme sports athlete; that he talks about having a helmet that he wears during it or that his most memorable time that he speaks of is doing it on a park bench and "enjoyed hearing the comments of others while he was doing that".

What were the comments? "Look at that idiot." "What is that a**hole doing? I want to actually sit on that bench."

He wears a helmet for this? I was expecting to hear that he 'skanks' in dangerous places.... but a park bench? Seriously?

Sorry, this just blew my mind completely. It seems that my brain is not wired properly to understand any of that.


The whole "extreme sport" + "athlete" + "helmet" + "park bench" just puzzles me.



Okay, end of rant.

[Suburban Rhythm]