Sunday, October 29, 2006

I've never seen her do it

Jeremy and I surfed Huntington Beach at the apartments Saturday, as Newport has been flat for a while already. It wasn't the pier mind you, but the apartments, which is just north of the pier. but the surfers there are still the same, which reinforces my distaste for HB. The waves were pretty good, about 3 to 4 with occasional 5 ft faces. I was riding the Ole 9'6 and jeremy was body boarding his Rheopaipo. Anyway, Jeremy took off deep on this killer right, way overhead, and dropped in on a clean wave. It was so good that I wanted to drop in on him, but. . . well he is my son and I wanted him to enjoy the wave. Anyway, he makes a clean drop and I paddle wait for him to paddle back out and I see this guy talking to Jeremy. I was wondering what the guy was saying to Jeremy, because he got a clean wave with no one else taking off. Turns out the guy was telling jeremy that a chick on a longboard bailed on her board on the wave, and the board got dangerously close to hitting Jeremy. I paddled over to the guy to see what was up and he told me what happened. So I asked him who the girl was and he pointed her out. So I paddled over to the girl and her possee and proceeded to tell her, in a very nice way that she can't be bailing on her board when someone is riding the wave. She said sorry and I thought that was it, and then two of her guy friends came over and decided to inject themselves into the discussion, even though it was none of their business. One of them says whats the problem and I say there is no problem and the girl says there is no problem, but the guy wanted to be an asshole so I tell him what I told the girl, that she can't bail on her board when someone is riding the wave. That is rule number two, don't bail on your board when someone is riding it. Then the guy says, "well, I've been surfing with her for a long time and I've never seen her do that." And I say, Well she did and she has to hold onto her board no matter what, it doens't matter if she takes a pounding, she can't let go of her board." And I paddled away. I didn't get pissed at those idiots. the girl was cool about it but the two guys were total assholes, like it wasn't her fault. yeah fucking right. It is assholes like them who just make me hate living in Orange County.

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