A lot has been going on lately, so I needed my usual mode of relaxation – a day at the beach. I arrived late, around 3ish on 9th Street to check out the Beach Ball Festival. I walked around to get a feel for it, and it was alright. But I really couldn’t wait to get onto the sand, go for a dip in the ocean, lay out and relax.
There was a creepy guy sitting on a chair fairly close to me. Balding, with mirror shades, he appeared to be pretending to read a James Patterson novel and listening to his IPod. I say ‘pretending’ because he kept looking around. I love James Patterson, (my favorite book is Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas), and how strange that this guy can’t keep his eyes on the book. I suppose it may not be his style writing. Maybe the book was given to him by someone as a gift. I digress.
I was trying to read the newspaper, and I finished a couple of sections then put it away. I tried listening to music. I was feeling blue but couldn’t think of one artist I wanted to listen to. The Cure or Sarah McLachlan could make me more blue, and upbeat music wasn’t swaying my bad mood.
I laid down, trying to get comfortable and forget the many thoughts in my head to no avail. I started to pack up along with picking up my trash and, as I crossed the site where weird dude was sitting I found this!
I couldn’t believe it I had to get a picture. One or two butts I might be able to understand. But 10 butts? Cmon! I wish I had seen it before he left because I would have handed him a bag and told him to pick that shit up.
You know, I usually complain about the tourists littering, but locals aren’t any better. Clearly this guy has no manners, and his own house must be a pigsty, so how can I expect him to care for public places? I’m just mad at myself for not having seen it before it was too late. Already being in a foul mood, he got lucky because the outburst of my rage wasn’t going to be pretty.
Yesterday morning a plane flew over Miami Beach with a banner reading (in Spanish) “A clean beach is a beautiful beach” or roughly that translation anyway.
Most interesting that it wasn’t in English, especially since it had some MB organization logo on it.
I hate seeing all of that litter on the beach. It sucks. People are slobs and a lot of cigarette smokers dont consider their filters to be “garbage” worthy of picking out of the sand and thrown away.
I hear ya. I’m a smoker and I always pick up my butts and any other trash I have and even other people’s garbage. I’m constantly picking things up from the water too. It’s just disgusting that people have no manners.