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If You Make Fewer Than 3 Mistakes, It Means You Were Really Good At Chemistry Back In School
If You Make Fewer Than 3 Mistakes, It Means You Were Really Good At Chemistry Back In School
Somebody's Dad reply
1995, Dalkey, Ireland. They had a long flight of concrete steps leading down a steep hill into the Irish Sea, with boulders at the bottom. (I've been back once. Like the rest of Dalkey, it's a bit more built up now.) But at the time, I was taking pictures of the waves, which were violently smashing against the rocks and sending up huge sprays. It was both pretty and pretty spectacular. Then as I watched, an old man with long white hair swam through the waves that were pounding the rocks, and began to climb the long stairway. When he got to where I was standing, he stopped and we talked for almost an hour. He was a fascinating individual. He was 80 years old. Shirtless from his swim, he looked in better shape than i did at 37. Tired from his workout, but still with boundless energy. He said he swam in the sea every day. Except 3 weeks ago, when there had been a storm and the water was just too rough. I looked down at the churning waves slamming the rocks, and couldn't imagine anything rougher.
Mark Harrison reply
UK answer. I’ve seen people actually leave the beach just because it started raining. Do they not understand how an English beach holiday works?
Keith Rawls reply
I discovered a beautiful beach about a twenty minute walk from my hotel, while working in Hiraska, Japan. So the next time I worked there, I brought my swimming suit, got up early before work, and headed for the beach.
When I got there, I saw three people giving artificial resuscitation to someone lying on the beach. Then I looked out to the ocean and saw people in wet suits bringing more bodies to the shore on their surfboards, and pulling them up onto the beach. Maybe a boat had capsized? This sure wasn’t a good day to go for a swim!
Then suddenly, all the dead people got up and swam out into ocean! Turns out it was a group of lifeguards practicing their rescue techniques.
Richard May reply
I was on a a beach on Zakynthos, Greece when some baby loggerhead turtles started emerging from a nest at the the top of the beach. This is quite unusual as they normally don’t come out until it is dark. There were a load of Italians, 50 or so, on the beach who wanted to use these baby turtles to make soup. The Greeks and the British were not in favour of this idea. The Italians were quite insistent and went and ripped down half a wooden fence to use as weapons, When the Greeks and the Brits removed the other half and still objected the Italians decided they were well outnumbered and they pissed off but it looked all set for quite a serious riot for half an hour or so. The baby turtles all made it to the sea.
Sam the Girl reply
Shocking, but not in a bad way. I’d been living in South Carolina for some time, frequenting a particular beach almost daily with my friend who’d lived there quite longer than I had. We both knew full well that this was a “no public drinking” beach. We did drink on the beach but kept it fairly discreet. We’re out there one day, and we’ve slipped a bit, we have a couple of beer cans showing. Friend has fallen dead asleep. We’re not actually drunk, but friend always falls asleep sunbathing. I’m laying out, not really fully awake but not totally asleep either. I hear the police coming in their quad. I decide to let my friend sleep through this, police make said friend very nervous. I sit up as I hear the quad stop near us, I already know what this is about. I’m willing to take the ticket with minimal drama. The officer asks me for ID, it still happens to be my AZ ID. The officer assumes I’m a tourist, and asks if my friend is here from AZ too, or a local. So I fish out my friend’s ID, still also an AZ ID. I point out my car, AZ plates. I still think I’ll get a ticket. No, this kind and reasonable officer says we must not have noticed the signs, but this is a no alcohol beach. He doesn’t expect us to read every sign or to know this. He takes our empty beer cans. But wait, it gets better. He explains that the law was made because college students would come to the beach and get drunk and unruly, not for sleepy middle aged tourists such as us. He hands me a couple of red solo cups. He proceeds to tell me that if we simply pour our beer into these, no one will ask what’s in the cup, and no one will look in our cooler unless we foolishly left it open. So I shockingly got the inside scoop on how to get away with breaking the law on the beach, by a cop whose main purpose was to enforce said law.