I'm going to need a hip replacement

My ollieing hip was aching pretty bad this morning. I'm not old enough for this. I hate thinking that one day, I won't be able to skate anymore. In the meantime, I cruised to the bridge after work and did my best to ignore the heat and the pain. It mostly worked, and although it was crowded, I did what I came to do. SenioreC sent a message as I finished my water bottle, announcing he was up at the river,  and since I wasn't that into skating through the crowd anymore, I rode the orange line up there and met him out by the secret benches. They were still wet from the rain, the water pooled up on the ones that were waxed. I cupped my hands and slung it off the best I could. It turned into a good, calm session there; a cool breezy evening, with lots of people stopping their Ubikes to watch for a minute, and then moving on. SenioreC is well traveled, and a good conversationalist, so we talked about Taiwan and other countries, as the skating died down. Then we cruised down the hill and through the one lane back streets to the 24 hour nightmarket, and where we split some 臭豆腐, and I took home a sack of my all time favorite taiwanese small food, 鹽水雞. Now it's 1 am and I'm exhausted and suffering from the painful hip, but I'm wired. This might be a night when I give up and watch some skate videos.