Last week, I made a reference to having seen, during rush hour Friday morning, a young woman in a sensible black business suit skateboarding to work in downtown Baltimore, along Guilford Avenue. Skateboard was hot pink, too.

Turns out she's Christine Carey and she skateboards to work at Maryland Legal Aid on Lexington Street, where’s she’s a summer intern in the organization's Farmworker Program. Joe Surkiewicz, Legal Aid's communications director, says Christine skateboards to UB Law School the rest of the year. "She started skateboarding as an undergrad at Loyola Marymount in L.A., a city, she reports, with better sidewalks and nicer drivers than Baltimore. She won’t skateboard in the street here." Christine walks home, because she lives up a hill, and she walks to work when it’s raining. "Replacing those bearings is expensive," she tells Surkiewicz.