by Stoker » Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:44 pm
My “weird” surf trip is also set in Florida. My friend has a place in Ormond Beach (just N. of Daytona) that he invites me to. He says the surf is O.K. I get there and its flat. I mean flatter than what I’m used in the heartland. We drive up and down the coast – nothing. I fly out in a week. Two days later I get calls from my buddy saying the surf has really picked up. He tells me he was surfing chest and overhead size waves at Flaggler Pier, when he sees this woman out there ripping. He paddles over to her and says, “What do you do, surf for a living”? She takes a wave and doesn’t respond. So later he clarifies, “I meant that as a compliment” and she says, “oh, I thought you might have been saying I should get a real job”. Next day my buddy over hears other surfers talk about seeing Lisa Anderson out yesterday. So my buddy realized at that moment he had paddled up to the five time world champ and asked if she surfed for a living.