Your re-cap of history is, unfortunately, accurate, and your facts are in fact, facts!
(I just wish the PINK were really BIG)
What you failed to mention, is that all I wanted, was, to LOOK like a surfer!
Imagine, in the late 50's and early 60's, attending La Jolla High School, and NOT looking like Tweek, or Butch, or Joe Trotter.
They were the cool ones!
Not only was I a 'Shores Guy', but I had a Glencourt 9- phone number (all the WindanSea guys,the REAL surfers,had a Glencourt 4- phone number) AND, the worst of all: I had transparent skin!!
I don't know if it was the cumulative effects of Man-Tan and sunbathing, or just a birth defect, which led to my bout with:
MELANOMA! almost 20 years ago (level 5, stage II, 3-6 months life expectancy)!
(I laugh at death)
Your fire-ring story, about my brother is true, however, my most memorable fire-ring story is, once, 'not disclosing how many years ago', when I finally got a fire going, Wayne 'Rising Sun' Miyata peed on it, and extinguished the flame.
I swore I would get even with him, someday...
I finally ran into him a few years ago at a WindanSea party.
As I remembered, his ('can anyone explain nicknames such as Tubesteak'
tube-steaking fire extinguisher was at least 3 feet long...(a little known factoid is, mothers had to hide their daughters when Tubesteak Tracy was around)
...Reality is that Wayne himself is barely 5 feet tall, and the rest of his body, I'm sure, is in proportion...way too easy, way too long ago!
Of course, I had to tell him the story, and at least fake a blow to his chops.
Anyway, TRUE friends like you, are very rare in anyone's world, especially in the world of La Jolla Surfing.
...a place where the institution's walls fell down and none of the inmates left...(Speaking only of myself, of course)
Black's is calling, and life only gets better!
B 'Where's my KEY' A
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