The Time Tax.. what is it? and is it wrong?

May 28th, 2010 by sancho in the Uncategorized category

It has happened to all of us…

You are out in the line up and it’s barreling its tits off.. you told yourself beforehand that you could only stay out for an hour, but you have lost track of time and you didn’t bring a watch.

So you start asking around…

“Hey do you know what time it is?”

Your assumption is that the guy next to you with the snazzy new Nixon will hit you back with what you want to hear… but this is where the “time tax” comes into play..

Instead of reading you off the correct time, the “time taxer” adds 15 or 20 minutes to the reading off his watch with the hope that you pack up quick and head home….

and to be honest I have seen it work.

The theory with time taxing is that if someone is asking you for the time then they must have somewhere to go in the near future. So tacking on those extra 15-20 minutes might just make that other guy leave earlier and give you a couple of more waves to your greedy little self..

so the question is “is time taxing wrong?”

Honestly right now I am divided..

I mean yeah it’s selfish, but isn’t surfing kind of a selfish sport to begin with?
And if that person really needed to be somewhere important then why didn’t he wear his own damn watch? Right?

But then again I’ve had instances were those extra few minutes are so crucial to an epic session and by the grace of some geezer in the line up I have been able to maximize my water time..

so it’s open for debate.

Let us know what you think and If we like your comment enough we might just send you a tee shirt hand printed by one of us time taxers..

After writing this though I hope I don’t spread the trend and end up getting time taxed myself… hahah

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