Try To Get The Skateboard Off Her Feet

Amanda looked down at her feet and tried to focus her mind. She was high as hell off of a pot brownie that her roommate Sarah had given her and had decided to ride around the town to clear her head a little. She didn't even really remember stopping or sitting down at the table. She only remembered the glorious smell of fried food and and wanted to be close to it for a while.

She wasn't even sure about how much of this was real and how much her mind was blowing out of proportion. Her feet couldn't really be stuck to her board, could they? No, of course not. She had probably just stepped in some gum making them stick a little to the deck, and then hit a rock or something that had caused her skateboard to come to a sudden stop. Everything else was just her THC addled imagination going wild. Especially the sour woman.

She made a mental note to get the recipe for the brownies from Sarah later.

Taking a deep breath Amanda brought her knees up so that she could reach her feet. She grabbed the board on the second try and tried to wrench it free from the bottoms of her shoes expecting to see long pink tendrils of chewing gum stretch between them, but to her surprise the skateboard stayed solidly connected.

"What the fu..." She muttered under her breath.

After failing to pull the skateboard free a few more times Amanda decided that this wasn't going to work. She just couldn't get the leverage necessary to wrench the thing free curled up on the sidewalk like this. She needed a new strategy.

She looked around herself for options and resources she could use to pry the board off of her feet but didn't see much. A crowbar would be optimal, Amanda thought, but all she saw were a few flimsy-looking sticks. As she scanned the parking lot an idea slowly formed itself in her mind. She noticed that she was only a few feet away from the curb, if she couldn't pry herself free of the board maybe she could pry the board off of her.

"Brilliant!" She she congratulated herself out loud.

Amanda rolled onto her stomach and dragged herself over to the curb. Turning herself around she secured the tail-end of the board on the edge of the curb and began trying to crawl away.

At first she thought she was making headway, but all too soon she hit the limit of how far she could go, the skateboard still holding a her feet in a solid grip. She strained to crawl forward, but with only her arms to use she couldn't get much traction.

"What are you doing?" A voice from somewhere above her.

"Huh?" Amanda snapped out of her world of intense concentration and noticed two pairs of feet directly in front of her. She had been so focused on her attempts to pull her feet free she hadn't even noticed the couple approach.

Amanda looked up and saw a boy and a girl looking down at her with very confused expressions on their faces. For a brief moment she wondered just how long they had been watching her, she felt like she had been struggling to pull free of her skateboard for hours, days even.

"Oh, hi!" She grinned and embarrassed grin. "Um.. How long have you guys been watching me?"

"A few seconds." The girl replied. They both looked like they were in Jr. High and the way they were holding hands seemed to scream "first love" through a bullhorn.

"Yeah, we just saw you flop onto your stomach and start scrabbling at the sidewalk." The boy said. "What the hell are you doing?"

"I think that some lady put glue on my skateboard and now my feet are stuck to it and I can't get them off and I feel like I've been here for hours and I think I should have stopped talking a while ago but it's hard to tell." Amanda blurted out.

The couple gave each other a quick glance that seemed to communicate a sudden realization.

"Are you on **** or something?" The girl asked.

"Um.. Yeah," Amanda admitted as she rolled over on her back so now she was looking straight up both of their noses. "But my feet really are stuck."

"Why don't you just take your shoes off?" The boy asked.

If her feet weren't solidly fused to her skateboard Amanda would have kicked herself.