Summer Memory

I was glancing over some old Word files and found the diary I kept in August. Since it has been very cold and windy for the last week (except today, oddly) I thought this might be a good time to remember why summer isn't always so great.

Scene from a Beach

Friday, August 05, 2005

I took the kids to the beach today. The water is not as clear on the Burl. side as it is on the Ham. side. Go figure. Also, you can smell the wastewater treatment plant, which is kinda icky and there is a fishier smell for some reason. Oh, and it’s really really cold. Why would it be so much colder on that side of the lift bridge? The end result is that we will stick to the Ham. side from now on.

So we played in the sand and waded out into the water – not far, though. It really was so cold that it made my feet hurt. DD went out as far as she could. We made some hand signals so I wouldn’t have to yell at her to get her to come back.

She starts swimming lessons on Tuesday. I hope she will enjoy them. I think she is ready now, which is nice. I will find her some earplugs. I should do that soon.

Anyway, so there we are at the beach. DD is wading, DS and I are digging and a gentleman approaches wearing a Speedo. I don’t really approve of Speedos, even on hot guys, so the 50ish and no-so-fit-but-not-too-fat man walking towards us does not get a thumbs up from me. Some time later, the man returns, I see him pass by us. I look up and see his ass. He has pulled his swimsuit up his butt – maybe to get a better tan? Who knows. The point is, he’s pretty much wearing a thong and I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. If it isn’t, it should be. Ew.

Also making her way up and down the beach is a creature made almost entirely of leather. She seems to be in her mid-50’s. Her skin is very dark, but not smooth. Leathery. She is pierced: lip, nose, belly button; her bleach-blonde hair is no more than 1/4 inch long. She has no “ass”, per se, just two wrinkly bags hanging out the sides of her bikini botton…and flapping. Ew.

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Hope you all got a nice visual, there. Those two images will haunt me forever, I tell you. Anyway, here is an arial picture of the Beach Strip:



The dark water is the shipping lane. You can't see it very well, but on the right at the top are the steel mills.