Unforgivable.
Now, entitled behavior in the face of beautiful service employees is always rotten but in the day and age of Covid, when service employees are taxed to the maximum?
Well oh my goodness.
Unforgivable.
Yet even so, a professional surfer has allegedly pushed a hotel front desk employee to the maximum by pretending to be “passed out” after finishing 2nd in two surfing competitions with hideously rude, irredeemably entitled behavior.
Per the Reddit /TalesFromTheFrontDesk sub:
Hi all, first time poster long time lurker.
A little info before we start this lovely tale, we have been having issues with our reservations teams reservations actually making it into our system. (we don’t take walk-ins so all reservations are through the reservations team or online)
So this situation happened about a week or so ago. People included in this story is Myself, and Surfer guy (SG for short)
SG: Walks up to the desk huffing and puffing holding his surfboard. “Hello, I have a reservation. Make it quick please. I’m super super exhausted. Just finished 2nd in two surfing competitions”
Myself: “I’ll be as quick as I can. May I see your ID, card and vaccination card?”
SG: Huffs some more and hands it over.
It’s during this moment I don’t see the name on the arrivals list and have a feeling the same issue that’s been popping up the last few nights has occurred. After a few questions asking if It could of been under some other name, and for the confirmation number he starts to get pissed off.
SG: “I just got done with two surfing competitions and now I have to deal with this?? Of course It’s under my name. I just got done with two surfing competitions and I’m very tired. I am going to pass out. Can you give me a key to my room and we can figure the payment out later? I just got done with two surfing competitions.”
Myself: “Unfortunately, Sir, I am unable to provide you with a room unless I have a payment method. I’m going to contact reservations and see If they can transfer the reservation over. I apologize for the delay.”
SG: “This is embarrassing! I’m never staying here after this.”
He ends up walking over to one of our couches in the lobby and flops down, head resting against the backboard. Within a few moments I was able to have the reservation sent over, and printed out the form for him to sign. (just agreeing to our policies)
Myself: Hello, Sir. I have the reservation now. I just need your card and your signatures and we’ll be done.
He continues to pretend to be passed out. To prove a point of how tired he is? I’m not sure. It’s obvious he’s awake as his eyes are only partly shut and I can see him blinking. It takes a few moments before I am able to “wake” him up and get him to sign his forms.
SG: “I’m never staying here again. This is humiliating and cruel. I just got done with two surfing competitions and you didn’t allow me to go to my room. I’m about to pass out.”
Myself: “Have a good evening!”
Ok.
So which professional surfer was this?
We for sure know.
Two competitions, second place.
The only clues we need for public flogging.
Which surfer pretended to pass out?
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Ok this cannot be real, I mean there cannot be a human being this stuck up and entitled to everything in the world.
If this is real, damn I missed an opportunity to kill this kid and his entire family, to save our world from their kind.
Is this site for real? Is this the enquirer of the coast? Ultra hard surf sounds like ultra hard gossipy middle schoolers!
Making Ziff Waterman of the year set the bar extremely low . I won a little cash over the years from surfing contests but I would never call myself a Pro Surfer because that would be like having a real job and career expectations ….
No doubt it’s an American from the mainland…
Let’s drill down a bit because i’m trying to understand your angle.
If Covid was as deadly as Smallpox (30% mortality rate) would you be ok with getting vaccinated?
What’s your thoughts on all the other vaccines out there like Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Hep B, Rabies, Yellow fever, Japanese Encephalitis, etc.
The white lotus reference here is clearly that fuckwit Shane. Second place surfer is pretty much reading his lines from the script.
Bloody hell you guys are hopeless at cyber stalking. Look at the poster’s reddit. Firstly: it says the incident “happened a few weeks ago”. Second, if you click on his profile you’ll see all his other posts, one of which says he works in a hotel in Waikiki (and is also a bit of a fat cunt).
Next step, look at WSL web site for contests in Hawaii in Sep/Oct. None.
Either the guy is a scammer or he is not a surfer but a bodyboarder/kitesurfer/SUP or some other kook. I’m tipping the former.
If you’re saying people on reddit make things up that would break my heart.
As one of the commenters on Reddit said: “I think that competition only happened in that guy’s head”.
A CB ……finally a case of the competitive wet dream ….. ( coming 2nd though gives much joy to fans of Jung and Freud )
where did you redddit ?
Not really a “celebrity behaving poorly story” but one of these days I’ll tell my Gavin Rossdale tale from many years ago (I also have a fun-ish Steven Tyler one).
Needless to say…he was expecting attention and literally received none.
But at least he was nice about it (same with Steve).
On Reddit thread he says he works in Hawaii – only person that got 2nd twice in Hawaii was Mikey Wright to Leo for wildcard surf off.
Exactly. Who would be bragging about coming second twice?
and is a massive tool
That’s not really narrowing it down…
Who the hell says “surfing competition”? 2 contestes in a day? Not buying it.
And it ain’t Lemoore, in the reddit thread the guy says the property is about 10 minutes from the beach.
Put a line through all the Aussies. Aussies only say Connest.
True ! I was once berated by my uptown girl girlfriend of the 80s for using this pronunciation……I foolishly believed if Occy and Dog could pronounce it that way than I could get away with it ….. WRONG ! The girl , was quick to point out that perhaps in Kurnell it was acceptable , but not in millionaire acres , at the southern extremity of the Cronulla Stretch , next to the sailing club …… not at all stok-ed. I should have ran for the hills at that very moment …..but no fool like a young fool .
Okay I further narrowed it down and it wasn’t Ricky Basnett.
Please update again when you exit the think tank.
Whatever the record says Ricky made the CT , where blokes as talented as Mitch Coleburn etc etc never did .
That’s like saying you don’t need to use condoms because your girlfriend isn’t even pregnant yet.
If only there was someone out there who knows more than 99% of doctors, they would know what to do.
Vax or no, the issue is mandates. I’m 70, v. high-risk. took D3 x 9-mos, got COVID & recovered in 10-d.
Got vaxxed w/o thinking it through; will refuse boosters.
The mandates are evil…
That’s an odd fetish, but ok.
Gotta be Bruce Irons.
I love Bruce but doubt he could find a hotel ?
Unlikely a CT-er of any standing. They all travel with an unnecessary entourage. Dude probably just got second in an age division club event.
I begged my local French Club for years to let me surf with old blokes my age but they never let me ( I would have went easy on them and shared the wonderful wine from the Medoc which went to the winner ) and stuck me in with the kids , unless it was a novelty event …..
Though I can’t complain because somehow I always won a jug of beer if I finished 1st 2nd or 3rd in the Open Division and going out on a high with a last win at 45 thanks to the dreaded left hand rip bowl .
Can confirm that this was actually Chas Smith attempting to check into the Best Western Lemoore after finishing second to his own wife on two consecutive days at Surf Ranch.
Would have been except mo B.W.
!!!
Looking forward to an article on surfing’s COAT. ‘Cheapest Of All Time’. I’m sure there’s some past world champs in there somewhere.
Chaz has had a Renaissance in his surfing his midlength and going to wave pools… also have been $$$ his wife so he can afford any hotel and trips to Lemoore.
I mean who else would fake sleep to show how important they are?
kanoa?? – has had 2 x 3rd places in challengers so maybe he talked em up to 2nds?
Hmmm could have also thrown a flamboyant hissy fit in the lobby. I’d believe this.
That was my guess.
who done it?
Tajjjjj . Mr second
Taj has made so much coin from coming second that he probably owns the Taj Mahal and only stays there ?