>if you show up enough times and get to know the regulars, you'll be totally fine.
This makes me frown slightly in vague annoyance. Why should I need the permission and tacit approval of "the regulars" to choose to start surfing? It kind of reminds me of those groups, usually of old men, that you see occasionally decide a bar is "their bar" because they've been going there a while, and try to push other patrons out though passive-aggressive behavior.
If that's really how it is, I'd be one of those wave stealers, and I wouldn't apologize for it.
This makes me frown slightly in vague annoyance. Why should I need the permission and tacit approval of "the regulars" to choose to start surfing? It kind of reminds me of those groups, usually of old men, that you see occasionally decide a bar is "their bar" because they've been going there a while, and try to push other patrons out though passive-aggressive behavior.
If that's really how it is, I'd be one of those wave stealers, and I wouldn't apologize for it.