@Kook_of_the_day is one of the greatest Instagram accounts out there. I think it is, at least, because my smartphone is too dumb to be on Instagram.
We’ve all been kooks at some point. The first surfboard I ever owned was a 7’3 Polen gun that I bought because it looked a little bit like a shortboard, but wasn’t so short. I posed casually with it, trying my hardest not to look like I was posing. I wandered the streets with it, hoping that people would look at me and think that I was a surfer, even though I didn’t surf just yet. And in my head, I was awesome. But looking back, I realize now that to anyone that had been on a surfboard for more than a week, I was a super kook. I was kook of the day.
There are a lot of cranky, salty surfers that don’t seem to have all that much fun. Those are the real kooks. They can be incredible surfers, but if they’re not getting paid to surf, there’s really not much point in sliding around on waves if you’re miserable while you’re doing it. That’s why kooks are so great. They haven’t reached the salty old asshole stage, which is much worse than the kook stage. Fins on backwards? Hilarious. They’ll figure it out and laugh about it later. Wetsuit on backwards? Even more hilarious. And yes, they’ll figure that out, too, and yes, they’ll laugh about it later. So to all those kooks out there, we salute you. Just don’t go dropping in on anyone.
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