I went swimming in the pouring rain, on my bodyboard, and was having a blast until a guy on a paddleboard came up to me and *sternly* told me not to go out to the surf break (which I had no intention of doing), saying that it was dangerous, and that he didn't want the lifeguards to have to go out on their rescue boards.

This really rankled me. Did I really look like such a pathetic neophyte that I needed the warning? There was a gaggle of teenage tourists who were actually headed out to the surf break on those hot pink inflatable rafts, which has to be more dangerous, yet paddleboard dude didn't seem to care. Why did he single me out as the worst grom out there? Rrrrr. I *hate* it when anyone tells me I can't do anything, especially when it's a physical activity (which is almost always when someone tells me I can't do something).