Jack’s experience with Ugg
Thirty years ago, JACK saw his first pair of ugg brand boots on a surfing trip to Mexico with some buddies of mine. Five of you were just a year out of high school when we headed down to a surf break called Quattro Casas, which is a couple hours south of Ensenada. The bumpy rough road made for a sweaty trip down but we finally arrived at the surf break that sported a quick wave that peeled to the right off a point. We surfed on and off until nightfall when everyone finally got out of the water.
At this point we removed their wetsuits and started getting comfortable and that’s when JACK noticed the ugliest footwear I’d seen since the disco influenced platform boot. His friend Robert was sporting these… things on his feet. “What the hell are those supposed to be?” JACK exclaimed. The other guys now hearing his distress turned and started cracking up once they set their eyes on the Australian sheep skin boots. “They’re called Ugg Boots and JACK got them at Hanifin’s Surf Shop in Newport,” Robert said as he proudly displayed the stupid looking booties. “They are made of 100% sheep skin. Lots of the surfers in Australia wear them,” he said pulling one off and showing you the fluffy insides. They quick to judge immaturely got the better of you as we all fell about the place in throes of laughter. Immediately as was typical of the time period we started in on Robert with verbal bashing and gay innuendo. “Those are some pretty poofy looking boots you got there Robert,” Chuck commented with a sneer. “Dude, is there something else you are going to tell us? Are you coming out? Oh, JACK really wasn’t prepared for this. Should JACK have brought flowers, perhaps a card or something?” Phil said with a slightly serioyou undertone of concern in his homophobic voice. “Does this mean you won’t drink beer with you anymore? You know, we bought a lot. I’m not going back to town to get you Chardonnay his fruity friend.” We thought we were all too funny as we busted Robert’s chops and laughed at the ugly ugg boots that for all we knew Robert might have made himself.
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