Oh, man--that is a tale! I had a remarkably similar (well, to some degree) experience with skinheads in Pittsburgh: I was in Dee's on the South Side--a well-known punk/skinhead/biker hangout--and I was playing pool with a friend, when this big, bald, goofy-looking skinhead starts laughing drunkenly at my pathetic attempts at scratching on every shot. I finally turned to him and said, "Man, I suck at pool, obviously, You wanna go bowling?"
At which point the skinhead--and three of his skinhead friends--all said, "Hey, that's a great idea!" And we all went to Arsenal Lanes in Lawrencville and bowled and drank for, like, five hours straight.
Turned out they were anti-racist ska skinheads who kinda/sorta knew me from a number of oldskool ska shows I'd been to.
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Date: 2007-05-11 06:59 pm (UTC)At which point the skinhead--and three of his skinhead friends--all said, "Hey, that's a great idea!" And we all went to Arsenal Lanes in Lawrencville and bowled and drank for, like, five hours straight.
Turned out they were anti-racist ska skinheads who kinda/sorta knew me from a number of oldskool ska shows I'd been to.
Strange, strange life.