moments before the almost disaster...
moments before the almost disaster... | Photo: Pete Taras

The day BeachGrit almost killed me!

I've just realized what evil lurks herein.

The other day we republished a Robert Fazio piece (5 things you need to stop doing (now)!) that made people (rightfully) livid!

To be completely honest, I didn’t read it when it went up, though I skimmed, and I didn’t read the comments, though I should have. It was one of the best feeds we’ve ever had with discussion of circumcision, Baroque art and Evangeline Lilly. It is totally worth going for a read.

In any case, in my skim I thought Mr. Fazio had written something about wrapping a leash around a board being uncool. I never do that except for when I ride my bike to the beach.

And today with Mr. Fazio’s advice in the back on my mind I got lazy and did not wrap the leash tightly at all. Instead, I lazily pitched it around the racks then took off.

I peddled lazily up the Pacific Coast Highway while cars whizzed by. As I continue to be completely honest, I was white wine drunk. Swerving a little. Not paying attention. Getting internally angry at people who put Hawaiian island stickers on their motor scooters. Etc.

Next thing I know, a man is screaming at me from a Jeep with probably a Hawaiian island sticker on its bumper. He’s screaming, “Your leash!”

I look back and he’s right! My leash is dragging far behind almost getting clipped by cars, almost snagging on guard rails. Etc. I swerved when I looked, a lot, and a car almost hit me.

I almost died because one of our fucking things.

Now I know how WSL CEO Paul Speaker feels.

P.S. I just read it and Mr. Fazio never wrote anything about wrapping a leash around a board. Where did that even come from?

0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
30 Comments
Newest
Oldest Most Voted
capn birdseye
capn birdseye
10 years ago

No but seriously, you don’t wrap your leash around your fins. It heats up in the sun and deforms it – thus making it useless for any purpose other than getting tangled around your ankles.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

With sauce!

Lemmy
Lemmy
10 years ago

chas the ultimate fashionista to ever touch a surfboard

Lemmy
Lemmy
10 years ago

first of all, why are you wearing a shirt if you’re biking to go surf? Second, why in the hell are you wearing some lame pink polo button down…TO GO SURF!!???!?

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
10 years ago
Reply to  Lemmy

I wear that pink button up in the surf! It was once perfect but accidentally got dried and shrunk a little too much and now it is my no sunburn surf shirt. I hate sunscreen!

Jen See
Jen See
10 years ago
Reply to  Chas Smith

you surf in a pink button down shirt. this makes me smile.

Lemmy
Lemmy
10 years ago
Reply to  Chas Smith

do you unbutton in the surf mimicking dion agius?

haroldbethyname
haroldbethyname
10 years ago
Reply to  Lemmy

or all the way up like Strider?

Audit In Progress
Audit In Progress
10 years ago
Reply to  Lemmy

Lemmy, I know you are an Immortal Rock and Roll God and had a tendency to shun shirts onstage and off, but there are very few instances a mere mortal (even Chas!) should go shirtless.

Braddy Depplach
Braddy Depplach
10 years ago

to think i almost had chas’ blood all over my hands. would i have been lauded as a hero, or forced to carry on his torch in tribute a la tim allen’s santa claus? We may never know. However, I have learned the value of explicitly mentioning when I’m being sarcastic, and will do such from this point forward.

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago

I was riding down the road by the dump on oahu towards lani’s on a scooter with no rack, Leash wrapped around me like a briefcase, when the wind caught the board and turned in in to a semi floating noose to ad insult to injury it started raining, my contact lenses started floating around,hit the breaks almost got rear ended by a moke in an SUV that was laughing too hard. Ended up turning in to the mud and rolling out of it checked my fins the board was fine. But I’m now proud because i wouldn’t have died in shorts that gay.

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

oh dear, GAY shorts are the BEST! fuckin’ love me some GAY shorts!

do GAY shorts have sex with other shorts? is it … like GAY short sex?

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel

Easy access for “Handy J’s”! From your boyfriend!

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

Oh that is beautiful. What a goer that bear is.. BG short sales will boom. I do fucking what to do lovely unwholesome things to you right now Turd Ferguson.

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  DrunkenAngel

Was that English?

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago

English infused with gin and a twist of lime.

J H
J H
10 years ago

Glad you survived, Chas.

I’m traveling this week and wouldn’t have been able to attend the funeral which would have been a major bummer.

A shit show like that is not to be missed.

Yeah_na
Yeah_na
10 years ago

If they are BG boardies Chas then this should be a clear example of why you should never personally endorse your own product ala KS.

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
10 years ago
Reply to  Yeah_na

I’ll have you know Mrs Neg’s thought I would have looked hot in my BG boardies if I was buff and 20…

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago
Reply to  Yeah_na

how do people’s private parts not come spilling out of these short shorts? is it some kind of magic?

Miki Dora
Miki Dora
10 years ago

Possibly it came from that fact that you’re an idiot and a poser apparently overly preoccupied with what other people think. And you see now why they call it a kook cord don’t you?

DrunkenAngel
DrunkenAngel
10 years ago
Reply to  Miki Dora

blood feud! mik dora wannabe pretender (thereby a person most furthest removed from such) VS chas ‘tiny shorts’ smith

Dumb Florida Redneck
Dumb Florida Redneck
10 years ago
Reply to  Miki Dora

must be hard trying to fill a legends shoes

Audit In Progress
Audit In Progress
10 years ago

That paparazzi photo is glorious, Chas!

Wardo's PO
Wardo's PO
10 years ago

Yeah, I don’t buy it, those kids aren’t even searching for a squirtle at Chesterfield. And a leash on a fish at 2 ft Cardiff? Fck, that’s got Inertia written all over it.

Chas Smith
Chas Smith
10 years ago
Reply to  Wardo's PO

I agree and hate the leash! It was left on though to pull young daughter around the sewage that flows out to Cardiff reef…

longtom
longtom
10 years ago

undershirt?

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
10 years ago

I didn’t read the Robert Fazio article or the comments. The only dago I’ll take advice from is Mark Occhilupo and that advice would be strictly limited to surfing. Wogs and surfing go together as well as Captain Francesco Schettino and the Costa Concordia. They are slimy cowards. Never fuck up my pizza order again.

Mapski
Mapski
10 years ago

Your supposed to wrap it around your neck when biking.


30
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x