So was out for a surf tonight (yeah bunch of rum, a hot water bottle and a bottle of IB Profine probably not a great idea) and I'd like to think I'm a pretty laid back tollerant person.

But:

There was a young fella out (high school) on a longboard it was a dropping tide going low there was 3 longboarders and 20+ shortboards sitting on this one bank.

Somehow this kid pissed off the entire line-up I was kinda impressed it takes a fair effort to do that in Manly because of all the blow in's it's pretty tolerant. But he paddled for everything, on a shoulder, on the peak, on the left, on the right, down the middle and then he dropped in on one too many and got a fair and well deserved serve from a shortboarder (if he was over 18 I'm pretty sure it would have been a punch up) and he just talked back at the guy like I said if he was a little older it was on like Donkey Kong and everyone on the peak would have golf clapped- the guy was pissed (I in no way condone violence).

So day goes by this kid drops in on a couple more people and paddles around like a goose and the line up hates him there was a thousand eyes on me and the only other LB'r out there.

Get one more go in, kid walks by me and I pull'm up and talk to him trying to say that not everyone that surfs will be as nice as they guy that pulled him up. And he blew me off, I wasn't trying to be a dick or anything (I couldn't get far enough away from him on the water) just trying to say play nice with the locals.

Am I outa line or what