Thursday, July 5, 2012

Blackies kook. . . In and outta da watah

I was at Blackies for the annual 4th of July parking fest fiasco. I wanted to see all the mayhem going on. I got there early and surfed micro waves with my friend Kevin but had to go home early, so I got out of the water at around 8 a.m. Sure enough there were cars circling, all manner of people asking if I was leaving. I said no, and proceeded to change, put the board away etc. I happened on another Blackies local who I never spoke to at all in the last 12 years I've surfed that spot. He rides a Dano log but wears a leash most of the time. I've seen him out in the water plenty times. I just never talked to him until the 4th of July 2012. Through talking with him I found out he is a Mercedes mechanic who after 19 years with FJ Mercedes (and Jim Slemons before that) opened his own garage in Costa Mesa. We were chatting it up with another guy when yet another Blackies local came up and started talking to the mechanic. They knew each other because the other Blackies local took his black wagon to him for repairs. At the end of their conversation, the guy with the wagon said to the mechanic, "Well let me know if you want to move your car into my space. I'd give it up but there are no WHITE people circling the lot." Was I surprised that this clown said this? Not really. I've been surfing Blackies since I moved back from Hawaii, and I've seen the guy around. He surfs every once in a while. I've never had a problem with him, though I've never acknowledged him, nor him I, not even when he stopped to talk to the mechanic. I was invisible to him when he made that comment. I never really cared for the guy for some reason, and now I know why. He is a kook, no matter how local he thinks he is. I would love to see him out at Bowls one day, which for the most part is a SEA of brown skinned people, and try and pull that WHITE crap in the Bowls parking lot. This clown is not worthy of the sport of kings.