A Scabs bachelor on the wrong side of 40 is confident that the girls half his age he habitually tries to converse with are none-the-wiser to their age gap. All thanks to his feverish devotion to wearing surf wear.
We spoke to Brodie who was pairing his best going out thongs with frayed jeans, a Quicksliver t-shirt and, of course, his signature Quicksilver hat. He told The Times,
“Lotta blokes my age wear hats because their hair is thinning. Not me, because the babes know that I’ve probably just popped up from the beach. Always scouting for a wave, ya know?”
He went on regale us with a story of how he had a group of 20 somethings in the palm of his hand on the weekend. Adding,
“A lot of these girls are pretty impressed by a bloke who owns a one bedder in Scabs. I’ve had some pretty legendary parties there over the years. They are thinking wow this guy still charges waves, parties and probably knows Taj Burrows”
To get the other side of the story, we spoke to a 22 year old who was the subject of Brodie’s charms on the weekend. She told The Times,
“I thought he was one of my dad’s friends saying hello. Ew. He kept mentioning he had loads of Mr Zog’s. Again, ew”
We asked Brodie if he thought he was in with a chance. He told The Times,
“Young blokes don’t know how to treat a woman. Where I have 2 and a half decades of experience in letting them down ha ha”
Yeah, no doubt about that.
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