Recently saw this Associated Press picture and it got me thinking…

There are just some things that we do to remind ourselves that we are youthful and just slightly disrespectful of the norms of the day.

When I was running the NCCYM in Birmingham in 2000, I packed along a scooter.  Of course, it was no good on hotel rugs, but in the exhibit halls and on the skywalk, I was able to really “scoot” around.

After a day of move-in and entering into pre-conferences, I was actually “pulled over” by the bike patrol of the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center who has a ban on skateboards and scooters outside their property and decided that a forty-year-old was a potential risk inside their facilities.

But, back to the picture . . .

The skateboarder? Tony Hawk.

The hallway?  Inside the White House.

Hawk’s age, by the way, during his Father’s Day visit to DC was the same as mine while I scooted Alabama (His skill, in comparison to mine, was a different matter!)

No matter, what the age, we youth ministers can just do some silly things, every now and then, like dressing up in a super-hero costume, or volunteering to be a moon walking bear, or pulling an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke, because… well… that’s how we roll.