I have seen the mermaids skating

[skonen_blades]

In yaletown today I saw a beautiful thing that passed by too quick to get a picture.
Here we go.
I saw a woman with short black hair and a shock of blue in the bangs. She was very casually riding a longboard at a pretty good clip as she barrelled down smithe with the same stance I'd expect someone to have on an escalator. She had glasses with hip thick black frames and was wearing a grey suit jacket blazer. She had a blue backpack on. She was wearing brown corduroy pants.
I want you to picture her.
I want you to picture her laid backness.
I want you to picture her ultra hip clothing and her light athletic frame.
I want you to picture her holding a latte.
She's zooming down a street in a light rain with a starbucks latte in one hand in front of her. No helmet, no pads. Her stance is exactly reminiscent of someone waiting in line at a bank machine. Her lock of blue hair nestled in the black shivering in the wind as she passes us and I drink this glorious sight in with my eyes.
So Vancouver.
So West Coast.
By the time I've fumbled my camera out, she's gone.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I totally know that girl. She was talking to me today and she said that she was freaked out when she was skateboarding through yaletown and she saw this huge circus freak staring at her. I guess I know who she was talking about now, eh? Tee hee.