Surfing at scattered thoughts

Surfing

Published by stephan.com February 13th, 2004 in thoughts/rants

Oh, yeah, starting to skim though Multiples again, particularly the lines in the beginning:

Locals all know better. This place has the fastest mirrors in the west. They’ll blow you away if you’re not careful. You can’t just go out there and grab for the big one - you’ve got to phase yourself in slowly.

Reminded me that, yesterday, when I was waiting for an appointment, I was forced to listen to some people talk about surfing.

I’d never realized it before, but that is possibly the most boring thing to hear someone talk about I have ever experienced. I think it must be worse than golf, or at least very similar. These people were comparing nuances of a particular area in Hawaii to parts of Southern California, overusing phrases like “oh, it’s totally craaazy” and specifying how a particular rock on a particular beach makes the waves break to the left, and how this one time at band camp the curls were, like, totally 10 feet, dude. Excruciating detail about one particular surfing run, describing the simple act of paddling into the water as if it was… well, I can’t think of an example, as if it was something fucking interesting.

Ugh. I’ve decided surfing is totally like golf, dude.

Tell the masses all about it