Not a lot of 11-year-old entrepreneurs can say they’ve received a letter from the president of the United States, admiring their workmanship.
Then again, not many are as bold as Carson Kropfl, who in January rode his skateboard into Trump Tower in New York City and left a note on a paper napkin for the then president-elect, offering to send one of the San Clemente boy’s Locker Board skateboards to the White House for Donald Trump’s son, Barron.
“Shred hard … Carson,” he signed the note.
The sixth-grader, whose first day of middle school last August had convinced him that there must be a market for a mini skateboard that could fit into a locker, has become inventor of the Locker Board.