You guys ain’ got nuttin’ on me, worked my ass off for what seemed like a life time to be able to take the wife and daughter to Hawaii for the US Championships.
Got there fine, hotel, car, everything great, surf the event, advancing to the semi-finals, this is where it only starts to go sour.
Off course Hawaiian rules set in for the non Hawaiian competitors, rule 13b of the USSF states that in REGULAR competition, boards longer that 2 feet over the competitors height may NOT be ridden.
In a heat of 6, 3 rode short boards, 3 rode complete longboards, now it takes a fool to think at a break like Makaha you can sit on the outside next to a 10 footer and get any position.
The shortboarders were Myself, Cino Magdalenes and Allen Pantellion, creator of the “Allen Wrench” maneuver.
I got a third, didn’t advance, filed the required written complaint, it went to the circular file immediately.
The wife springs it on me that she needs to get back to Fla. so she can get registered for the upcoming semester of law school. She leaves and my daughter and I are in Hawaii for the next 2 weeks, surfing becomes an act of desperation while I try to find wives and girlfriends of my pals to keep an eye on my daughter.
We did do alot of dad and daughter stuff together, but the time in the water was very minimal until we left for our trip back to Fla.
( Mike Daniel is very knowledged on what took place next )
Upon returning, I keep noticing that the newspaper is always on the classifieds realestate section, Super Bowl Sunday in approaching and I have to go to Miami, things don’t seem quite right in the home atmosphere. I ask my wife if she is OK, “oh Sure”, because she is pregnant with our second child, or was before we left Hawaii.
I know something isn’t right and keep prodding, I finally ask if she wants a divorce or something? The bomb drops, she wants a d-i-v-o-r-c-e, but it only gets better, she has rented an apartment with her law professor, who was a chaperon on the trip to Europe that I gave her 7 grand to go on the summer before. The money fund, CD’s and safety deposit box has already been emptied, the 5 acres of condo property and the 2 acres that a major interstate exit are going to built on are not in my name at all ( her mother was the realestate agent ) She had gotten an abortion upon gettiing back from Hawaii and every member of her family had borrowed money from me.
Can you say, I was F-ed.
The surf trip that turned into hell forever
