You should have been here yesterday

Every Thanksgiving and usually Christmas too, my parents would drive my brother and I to my grandmothers house in Burbank for the requisite turkey, stuffing and cranberry dinner.

Each and every time it was hollowing offshore. 

This was 40 years before Surfline, the internet and weather satellites and we would imagine offshore groomed barrels up and down the beach.

My older brother and I pleaded to stay home, "It's gonna be epic!".

Every time our pleas fell on the unsympathetic ears of non surfing parents and we went.

Grudgingly.

I might have even thrown a tantrum if I'd known how.

But we went and ate our turkey 

of course

the turkey

arguably

had a worse time

but still

one wonders 

how many good waves we missed