Sunday, July 10, 2011

A Beautiful Day To Go To The Beach

The weather at the beach is going to be nice today.

Families will come out in droves with their coolers

and sun block. First time dads will make sandcastles

with their children. Most of them will watch as the

waves roll in and slowly erode their work. There

will be the requisite volleyball games being played

by both the buffed up beach rats and the inland

suburban weekend warriors looking to forget the

workload of the previous work week. Lifeguards

will be sitting in their towers looking out over

gathered masses with a mixture of concern and

duty. The servers at the nearby restaurants and

bars will be wishing they could be freed from

their invisible yoke and wander the few feet it

would take to get to the surf and the sand. Just

below the lifeguard tower off its left hand side

will be a 45 year old insurance salesman passed

out, drunk. Not coincidentally, he will also have

forgotten to apply his sunblock as he sleeps.

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