Yesterday we had some really fun surf in OCMD. All was going well with the session when two guys paddled out. One on a glassed board the other on a soft top. The guy on the soft top was wearing an ill fitting dive wetsuit in yellow and black, the other had a hooded winter suit on? The camped themselves down peak from me and paddled for every wave. No matter how clearly i was on the peak they went. Each time i yelled at the top of my lungs "hey, back off! And "don't do it!" They still went. One time after dropping in and after I had straightened off and gotten slammed he turned around and gave me the thumbs up. I was furious. I was at the edge of blowing a fuse when i noticed it was strangely quiet between them. I had my back turned and started hearing strange grunts then turned around and noticed they were signing each other. They were friggin deaf! Breathing a sigh of relief and feling a little bad for my anger I gave them the one sign we all understand and enjoyed the stunned look in their eyes as i paddled away to have a great session.
I would have thrown their $hit in the water! Maybe done some sand reconne and then walked them to the windowless white van of duck tape and doom and maybe a bench off after I shotted some piers and finally offered to properly tie their leash around their neck. Did I miss anything?
good story...and ending. Yeah, flipping them off gets the point across...even to those who pretend to be deaf (but really are dumb).
I was kind of surfing a different peak than you were Zippy, but close close enough to see what was going on. The first thing I noticed was seeing one of them get a little wave that they actually rode for a bit, then get pounded on the inside for like 3 minutes. While he's still on the inside bailing under waves I see him do what I thought was throw his buddy a few hand gestures that looked like shakas. That cracked me up. Then later I realized those might not have been shakas.
Lol, after burning me it was a given that they would be floundering on the inside right where i would end up if i was able to pull into a barrel. I did love the thumbs up gesture, really pissed me off. Mitchell, when you caught a long left and ended up on my my other side in that rip I was waiting for them to burn you. But unlike me you were smart enough to paddle around them. I just sat there and was kinda enjoying being annoyed by the whole thing.
