I wear a helmet at the skatepark. It’s very uncool. Mostly, I go very early when the cool people haven’t yet gotten out of bed. Everyone knows that getting up early isn’t cool.
But I digress.
Once, at the skatepark, I was trying to master the littlest half pipe. It’s actually so small that your reaction time has to be so fast that the thing is nearly useless for someone of my size.
I had just been asked by a kid, who was also skating early, why I was so careful to wear wrist guards and a helmet. I said it was because I’m generally uncoordinated and not wearing a helmet is equivalent to just kneeling down and smacking my head on the concrete.
He laughed and said that I looked like I was doing okay.
Or something like that. Before he could finish what he was saying, I wobbled badly and came off the skateboard. The sound my helmet made as it smacked against the side of the little half pipe was really impressive. It echoed off nearby buildings in the chilly morning air. If it had been my unprotected head that’d hit, I sure wouldn’t be drawing right now. Drooling a bit and listing to one side, maybe.
I guess I’ll just never be cool.
Knowing Greg, I just knew this wasn’t Paste, but I thought it was the pogostick they buried on the first two frames…
Yeah Paste, swear at the helmet that prevented Kara from having to get the garden hose out and clean up the parking lot… (yeah…)
Now I bet Paste gets drug inside to glow in the dark and be checked that his pupils are the same size…
Drooling zombie with an open, oozing head wound isn’t cool, either. Regardless what the zombies with open, oozing head wounds say. They’re just shills for the zombies for men club.
Don’t be cool,
Don’t be drool (in’)
Don’t bleed red,
Feed your head (just ask Alice.)
I’m surprised that Paste wasn’t whipped into the clinic first. Someone coming down like that, the first minutes with a possible concussion? I would think Kara would have her doctor circuits kick in like that….
Kara would not miss her opportunity with the pogo. She has her priorities straight. She could send Hubris to get a nurse though.
A test for lady’s wear.
there is no way greg would have paste or any other character in that grave. and they are also mourning their common sense for having paste on the thing in the first place.
The helmet may have protected Paste’s head, but it seems that he shattered a few teeth when he hit the pavement.
IF there is a next time for paste, give him a mouthguard too.
HAHAHAH! I was expecting the Pogo to be broken (I knew Paste was alive, he’s a main char) but to find out the helmet died … that’s funny!! 😀
You might not be cool. That’s okay.
You’re alive, well, and doing cool things. That is awesome.
Keep wearing the helmet.
Wear the safety gear. Always. I’ve had my bacon saved just enough times that I will even pass out the gear to others about to do or help me with whatever. I can say that I still have my left eye because of true safety glasses; and a few other body parts still attached and mostly working because of the proper pads, guards, and carbon fiber/fiberglass/foam.
As for Paste’s teeth he may just have one or two knocked about or he dumped one and they can find it, clean it, and put it back in. Hope it’s not too late in day to find a dentist to do that…
I read this somewhere: “I never wear a helmet, unless I have something to put in it.”
Helmets are cooler than head injuries.