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How to be forced into a relationship with a Gay-maker™ ///™

1. listen to your wife bitch and moan that you are going to kill yourself while snowboarding and that "...you need to wear a helmet-and i'm not kidding!" all the freaking time.

2. threaten to cut the 'kitty' off until i get a helmet. no problem, i tell her, i'll beat off to a high-speed connection if need be-and it doesn't talk back.

3. get the mistress prego, and be told "...that we have more than enough life insurance, i won't change two peoples' diapers (if i were to become mushed vegetables), so get a helmet or i will pull the plug."

4. get a helmet; bitch about how it effects my balance (covered ears and top heavy-ness), come close to taking out friends because you cannot turn your head or hear like you once were able to...

anyways, i realize that it is not just me, and that i should be wearing a helmet (god knows i keeping getting worse every season, or so it feels like)...but i just feel so....lame with it on (i know, who cares what others think- i don't). am i alone here? and does anyone know if r.e.d. is going to bump up their padding in their hats (example: http://www.redprotection.com/productDetail.aspx?productID=73022)?

I don't

have a wife.

thank god, apparently.

How can hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

yep

i seriously hate helmets. and if i were a vegtable, i hope my wife would be cool enought to pull the plug.

start wearing a helmet everywhere you go. just embarrass her super bad. then she will hate those things.

i...

like to wear a full face helmet when i drive. it sends the message to the other motorists that i mean business.

HAHAHAHAHA

That's awesome.

How can hip-hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

full moto

aha.. that is damn funny.

One late and lovely full moon evening on a roadie I was driving solo up 50 to Tahoe and had similarly hilarious experience. A car with 5 guys all wearing 'hockey/jason' masks and holding little LED flashlights directly under the masks rolled up next to me and all turned and stared me down (in unison of course, for added 'spook' effect) and then went on the the next vehicle. Personally I thought it was freakin hilarious and give the kids mucho props for the entertainment. Along with the beautimous full moon drive, it made my night!

And LJJ, you can't be forced into something which you are already a member of. Besides I'm sure you look pretty in it.. ;)

Not awful, but...

I started wearing one full time about 6 or 7 years ago. It changes how well I can hear, my peripheral vision, adds a fair amount of weight to my head for the whiplash after an occasional caught edge, and I've taken friends out who were riding to my back. And I look like an orange on a toothpick since I wear an XL. But when I'm sitting on a lift and the mild-concussion tunnel vision and ear ringing kicks in, I've been happy to have it. Mostly I'm older, slower, and have a little bambino. If I'm alredy 3/4 of the way to loserville, why not go all the way.

///™ It could always be worse,

you could be this guy:

Hat-helmet, the latest rage for the '010

LOL

LOL

the secret...

is to promise to wear it, put it on in the parking lot, then take it off and ride in a beanie. i get that same conversation every time I ride. Technically, I do wear a helmet....

then again, after 6 concussions and one coma in the last 5 years, it might be a good idea.

(.)(.)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

helmets make your bald spot bigger