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I so love the beach. It is my go to place to relax and recharge. I love sitting at the shore and staring at the waves for hours, slowly losing the urge to kill every other human being on earth. For those few moments at least, I can handle the idea that Trump won the election, and that one of my brothers actually voted for him. Such is the power of this beautiful place.
This weekend I spent a couple of days there with family and it was great (because I drowned most of them out). But as always I can't turn off my bionic hearing (I was gonna say Daredevil hearing but yeah, most of you are old) and I caught a few things worthy of second look.
"I think I ate a jellyfish"- first child
"What did it taste like?"- second child
"Slimy, sticky, wet, Hot Cheetos"- first child
"Yep, you ate a jellyfish"- second child
(After eating an oyster shooter)
"What did that taste like?"
"Kind of like a loogie dunked in shrimp cocktail sauce"
"Gross"
"Yep. Pass me another one."
"Hey I don't think the refrigerator is cooling as it should."-Me
"It's fine."-unnamed
2 days later...
"How do you feel? Everyone is throwing up. We all must of eaten something bad."-unnamed
"Dumbasses."-Me
"Don't say it bitch. Don't do it!"- first drunk white lady at table next to us at a restaurant.
"I said it"-second drunk white lady at table next to us
"I didn't hear you say it. You just said you said it."-first drunk lady
"I don't remember now!"- second drunk lady
"Ha ha ha ha ha!"-Both drunk ladies
"Excuse me ma'am, I don't mean to alarm you, but there is a bee on your vagina."-first girl
"My bathing suit has flowers and bees painted all over it"-second girl
"Yeah, but the one on your vagina is a real one."-first girl
"Oh shit!"-second girl
"Those kids are evil."
"Don't say that. They are just little girls."
"So was Drew Barrymore in the Fire Starter."
"What did you do to my brother!"-little girl
"I didn't do anything!"-guilty boy
"I saw you!"-little girl
"Okay, well, then yes, I did."- guilty boy
"Stop that!"-adult
"AAAAAHHHH!"-child (looking up at adult with clenching fists)
"You want something to drink?"- different adult
"AAAAAHHHH!"-same child
"Come sit down with us over here."-different adult
"AAAAAHHHH!"-same child
"You're just going to keep doing that aren't you?"-different adult
"AAAAAAHHHH!"-same child
"I was wrong. This one is Drew Barrymore in the Fire Starter."-Me
All of the above notwithstanding, I had a lot of fun at the beach. I think that if I could live there I would. Though sometimes I think I may get tired of so much relaxation, I would so love to test that theory.
In the end I have no idea why kids can be so evil, why the hell people eat oyster shooters, or why that bee picked that particular vagina to land on. All of them are and will probably remain a mystery to me for some time, though I will try not to ponder too much about that last one.
What is important is that we all get away once in a while. Take a break from whatever your real world is. Sit by the beach. Have a drink. Listen to the waves for a day. If you have little kids then it won't be quite the same, and you won't be able to hear the waves over their screaming, but that's okay. It's a good thing to have the little ones around you. They can recharge you also.
