Surf Sundries - new ownership! — Local services in Brigantine

The owner is terrible. Walked in on our way to the pizza shop to grab sandals. Pulled out my phone to make sure I had grabbed enough out of the beach bag. So I had a 100 dollar bill in my left hand and my phone in my right.

He walked up and said "no phones are allowed in the store". I was taken aback and asked why. He then accused me of coming in to cool off and that I might just be there to take pictures of things.

I replied that I'm just checking the pizza menu to make sure I grabbed enough cash for these sandals with our pizza order. He then yelled he didnt care and we just stopped to cool off. I'm standing there holding a 100 dollar bill in my left hand and my cell phone in my right.

I was blown away. I'm a 38 year old middle class normal looking guy. Heck I dont even have any tattoos. In full beach gear standing there with my son.

I'm sure this review wont matter. But I would never ever go back in there. I laughed and walked out. It was so ridiculous I cant...

I decided to research the owner after having two bad experiences there. Once as a child and once as an adult. I wanted to understand how and why somebody could be this way. I made a new Google account with a different name just to write this and after reading so many bad reviews online I knew there had to be more to the story. I was right. I won't go into it here because it's not my story to tell but he's lived through and seen a lot. Does it excuse how he treats people and children? No. But I know what's moral and what's right and I am choosing to leave a good review here and hopefully somehow he will change his ways. Originally, I was going to take the revenge route and write terrible things everywhere I could. I even considered calling the store and saying terrible things to him. His story changed my mind and taught me a lesson. Maybe there is still time for him to learn...

AVOID AT ALL COSTS! I went into this, disastrously crowded with junk, store with my four children and without two minutes my older two (11 & 14) came up to me and said that an old man told them "this isn't a playground, leave" i wanted to shop and pick to some things for the beach so told them to just stick with me. We were quietly looking around when we were then approached by an ignorant old man who again who again said this isn't a playground, leave" I must say that i didn't handle this well myself as i let his ignorance get to me and i used several expletives in the course of our"discussion" Needless to say i was asked to never come back which i never would have anyway after being treated so. Plus there are several other stores in the area with better prices and super...