You know how sometimes you want to get away, I decided to go to Waterford,Tramore. I drove there expecting to maybe stay about an hour at most, Breathing in the sea air and having a long walk, even though the weather was rough(Gusting to 70-80kph) it was as I would put it “fresh” when i arrived at the strand I park the car pretty close to the beach.And waited for the rain to die down. Not been in Tramore more that 10 minutes at this point in time…. I decided it wasn’t going to get any better so I decided to lock the car and take a walk.
There was a guy with one of those beach buggy, powered by a ridgid sail (maybe 2×1 meter). We started off pretty much on the same path but veering in different direction, I continued on straight and he made for the beach.I was thinking that “His sail is going to blow away”. In any case I was on the beach less that 5 mins..
Here is where the fun begins….
I heard shouting, it was carried by the wind, “Fuck no” and some other thing I could not make out, I turned to look at what was happening, what did I see coming towards me.. yep you guessed it! it was the sail 
… What can someone do with only about 2 seconds to react.. I braced for the impact… BANG! knocked over and my eye cut… The guy comes running over and says” Fuck, this is all I need”, He was talking about the sail hitting me. I was dazed and confused as to what just happened and blood dripping from my eye, I went the the nearest surf shop, as I knew they would have first aid.
I waited in the surf shop to see if the guy would come back and apologise for what he caused. He never came back, what an asshole! Then after maybe 10-15 mins I noticed that I was missing my glasses which I just happened to have spend 300~ Euro on Saturday.. I went out and looked for maybe an hour, with the help of the nice people for the surf shop and just some bystanders that saw the thing. Well I never found my glasses that I only had for less than 24 hours.. So now I’m back wearing my old pair ( I’ll have to get the lenes replaced to my current prescription..(well at least I did not lose and eye as the glasses can be replaced…
I have no idea what lesson I was suppose to have learned from the experience…
Just a little update: As i left my number with the surf club, I got a phone call from him today, he has offered to pay for the loss of my glasses. That’s what I would expect…