Back to the topic for the first time:
Was surfing my local this morning with two longboard mates and we were getting more than our fair share of waves and we noticed a guy 50m further up the beach on a mal getting absolutely nothing - so I paddled up and invited him down to where we were cos we were making pigs of ourselves in the consistent glassy little waves - the guy said he thought cos we were locals he shouldn't come onto our bank

Obviously I dragged the dude over and into the mix and he had a blast - he was so stoked and told us he'd been surfing down in kiddies corner for a fair while (greeny/marley) and didn't feel very welcome and found the local crew relatively unfriendly. He said he'd never really surfed beachies much before cos he thought they were very "local" - another convert