Sure, kind of feels as if the COVID crisis, has past and we are returning to normal. Not the new normal, that too has past just like 6 predicted. 6 still have not figured out what that New Normal was supposed to be, nor honestly does 6 care. Just pray that soon this will all be behind us and COVID will just be a memory.
Guess what…. We actually had the pre-vacation vacation (PVV) this year!!!!
I normally start at the beginning, but this time I am going to start at the end. A brief story about Friday!
6 knows 6 said Friday, but actually the Friday story starts on Thursday. Only people with superior inelegance (SI), and we all know who has that, so no need for 6 to explain that point any further. Well it seems that every Thursday morning, the grounds keepers fire up the lawn mowers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers and announce the end of the week. After all the grounds are an absolute mess, from the group of renters that destroy the ambiance of paradise, over the past 6 days! 6 calls those noises caused by all the power equipment the beginning of the end of PVV and even our big family vacation (BFV). As a side note, if KICA is so concerned about climate change why do they allow two stroke power equipment on the island? They cause significant noise and air pollution, I bet all of the power equipment is causing the water levels to increase at least 1 inch a year! Before one realizes it, the landscapers are completed with their tasks, they have packed all of the equipment, and are in waiting mode for next Thursday and another inch rise in sea level. By now 6 is on his way to the sanctuary for his free cup of coffee and the Friday morning sun rise. It is actually kind of depressing, because the beach is empty, (6 actually enjoys that part) and in the sanctuary one can see all of the people who are staying there dragging their suitcases thru the front door, heading for the homestead. 6 never realized that the elite that stay there could have long faces, but there is a real sense of sadness in that place. 6 has not figured out if that is the shock of the invoice they just paid, or the fact that it is Friday. Fast forward to 3:00 on the beach, this is when the fund starts!
The first thing that one notices is there are now a few different people sitting around you in the chair that people have rented for the week. To our left was a rather large group of people who deiced to leave the beach a little earlier, and left their 10 chairs and 5 umbrellas baking in the afternoon sun. The chair was not even cold yet when a man and woman decided to take up residence on the empty chairs. 4 was the first to notice this act of blazon disregard for beach decorum. She said look at those two, the man I am guess was about 80 years old, was dressed as if he was just getting back from a run on the beach. He had some old dirty New Balance “geezer” shoes and an old beat up tee shirt that looked like he found in the dumpster on his way down to the beach! Now his wife was completely different, she appeared like one of the housewives of OC. Need I say more! They sat there for about ½ hours before the chair guy approached them and nicely told them to take their “geezer keister’s” and either pay up or move on, old people can be so rude! They finally relented and hand in hand walked further down the beach, and disappeared into the sunset. Personally 6 thinks the old guy, had to spend every sent of his hard-earned dollars keeping the old lady in fancy shoes! ( no comments) Not 10 minutes later a young couple did the exact same thing, but they took a different approach. They left and went the other direction on the beach, walked up the chairs that the chair guy had just put away and took two of the chairs and sat their “young keister’s” down out of the view of the chair guy! People!!
The second thing one notices on Friday afternoon is people walking on the beach. Some people are walking very slowly, with their heads down as if they are counting every step, they are savoring every minute they have left. These people have been thru a week of fighting the sun on the beach, and are all sun/wind burned and acting as if they have lost their best friend. While the new group of people all have their drinks (actual wine glasses) breaking the first rule of the beach. If one gets past all the rules being broken (Blog for next week) they have some “gidddddy-up” in their step, big smiles on their faces and best of all have not had to deal with the sun/wind all week!
Words of wisdom: Value every minute, be it the end of your adventure or the beginning. One can never get them back!
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