I think what happened is that he could no longer go on hiding his love for his favourite shaper so he finally got up the courage to ask Bob to run away with him to a deserted island where the two could live and surf together happily ever after.

When Bob rejected him, the pain of Bob’s unrequited love was too much of a burden for our Mac to shoulder and he did the unthinkable, the unimaginable, the un-undoable, the unsavoury, he went to another shaper.

This then set in motion a chain of unforeseeable consequences, the market for Bob’s boards immediately took a terminal tumble and when Wall Street got the news the stock market went into a decline, the likes of which had never been seen.

Mac is now in hiding somewhere in Uzbekistan.

It’s either that or his computer is broken.