Before hal ultimately admitted that he isn't much of a surfer he'd always have an excuse for why he hadn't surfed every time the waves had been firing in NJ. We don't get good waves very often here and without fail, every single time, hal had an excuse why he hadn't surfed. This was perhaps the most absurd excuse of them all. What kind of weirdo offers up unsolicited to another dude that he got the "Snip Snip"