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[[Guy showing off electric skateboard to girl reading something]]
Guy: Check it out! An electric longboard!
Girl: Sweet!
[[Guy riding longboard with girl sitting onboard -- people in background]]
Longboard: <<RRRR>>
[[Girl turned around on longboard]]
Girl: I feel like we're missing something...
Guy: Yeah...
[[Guy throwing 3 green Koopa Troopa shells; girl throwing 1 red Koopa Troopa shell -- like Mario Kart]]
<<Music Playing>>
Longboard: <<RRRR>>
[[Guy and girl still on longboard, going up an incline]]
Guy: Skating uphill like this is amazing. Years of gliding downhill and pushing uphill, and now suddenly it's gliding both ways.
Longboard: <<RRRR>>
[[Guy and girl after passing an S-curve and boulder]]
Guy: It's like going from C to Python. You don't realize how much time you were spending on the boring parts until you don't have to do them anymore.
Girl: But coding C or assembly makes you a better programmer. Maybe the boring parts build character.
[[Guy and girl on longboard...]]
Guy: Yeah... but it depends how you want to spend your life. See, my philosophy is --
[[Longboard get into an accident]]
<<*WHAM*>>
[[Calvin and Hobbes laying down in the grass near the guy and girl laying down on the grass -- Calin and Hobbes's wagon is on the path, as is the longboard -- all characters seeing stars]]
{{Title text: Unsafe vehicles, hills, and philosophy go hand in hand.}}
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