[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

I think that comparing the ends of the RI breachways to a rock in the surf is a little like apples and oranges. Do people think that if they get to the end of the breachway first they own it? I don't know the right answer or if there is one. There are lots of rocks in the surf, some are better than others, pick another one if someone is on that one. If I think it's worthwhile to be in a rotation I'll go to a breachway and almost always have fun. You usually get what you give on the end of a breachway.

I don't mean to beat a dead horse...

But you get the difference between the end of a breechway, and say the end of the East Wall, because someone explained it to you. It's not something that's obvious to a newbie like me.

So if I'm at the end of ONE jetty (say the Quonnie Breechway) and I'm by myself, I have to accomodate others who show up later.

But if I want to fish the end of the East Wall, and someone is already there, he can tell me to "get the %$@# off my rock".

Again, there was some internet tough guy language on this thread. The point is, I'm a pretty reasonable guy, and a pretty smart guy. There is no way I would ever distinguish between the right to call "firsties" at the end of the East Wall but not at Quonnie.

Now that I have been there and asked the question, I get it, and I have no problem abiding by it.

But I'll ask all the experts to understand that at some point in time, they were novices too. If someone is violating some rule of etiquette, it doesn't mean they deserve a beating, it could be innocent ignorance (which it woul dbe in my case). Instead of using the juvenile 'roid-rage approach which many of you seem to fancy, you might want to give me the same lesson that someone once gave you.

No one was born knowing, among other things, why there is a rotation at Quoiine and not everywhere else. Get over yourselves...