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If you can use a laugh, we’ve got some terrific comedy clubs. But for me, some of the best laughs around here come with no cover charge. Just go to the beach. Every time I go, I find something that just really makes me chuckle. And as regular blog readers know, I am going to the beach in Fort Lauderdale frequently these mornings. Perhaps this is why I’m smiling more these days. It’s as if everyone feels free to let loose and express themselves somehow on the sand. I’m not sure if it brings out the kid in us or makes us feel uninhibited or what. But you will see some unusual things.
Yesterday, I watched someone walking as close to the water as she could get. She had a bath towel completely draped over her head, both arms raised straight upwards. She looked like some weird NFL ref calling a touchdown. And as if that wasn’t enough, to cap it all off she was walking backwards. On her toes. Honest! A head towel, two raised arms, tiptoes … backwards. As I sat doing my daily meditation she passed me, which is how I noticed this was an older lady, maybe in her 70s. Apparently this was her unique form of exercise or self-actualization. It got a laugh out of me.
Even the seagulls get into the act. What is it with these birds anyway? I mean, why don’t some gulls like to get their feet wet? I sit there looking out at the sea, thinking my deep thoughts or whatever, and invariably a seagull wanders by and then stops to stare at the waves with me. Then the wave rolls in and the gull often runs away from the water, like a little kid playing in the surf. Or I’ll watch a gull that’s looking in toward shore and the bird will get surprised by some breaker and go hopping and flapping up into the air to escape. Hey, if you don’t like the water, move to the mountains.
It goes on this way. Each visit brings a new comedian of some sort. All doing their comic best for free, all very funny to me at least. There’s humor everywhere, of course, all around us daily. But some places offer more than others. It turns out that the beach is a very good spot to start your day with a laugh. And who can’t use that?
posted by LauderBLOGGER at 10:24 AM
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