I never went to "the beach" as a kid

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:24:22

Am I alone?

Obā-san · 2014-12-17 03:25:50

what is "the beach"

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:26:14

The beach! Where you apparently go if you live on or near a coastal area

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:29:14

let me guess you thought "the beach" was like Lake Laogai or somewhere

Imipolex G · 2014-12-17 03:29:48

there's sand and water there. Maybe a shark.

I was there a few times, never liked it much

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:30:49

Yeah like I live in semi-arid plain world where THERE ARE NO BEACHES AND AM A BIT PEEVED ABOUT THE ASSUMED UNIVERSALITY OF "GOING TO THE BEACH"

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:31:19

So I was trying to gauge how universal it really is

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-17 03:32:52

presumably most people who live in internal areas of the country have not been to the beach often or ever

I have tho

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:34:00

the more important question ought to be then: Is it good?

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 03:49:12

YES

OH MAN, YES

IT'S A PLACE WHERE THERE IS SALT IN THE WATER, SO YOU FLOAT REALLY EASILY, AND YOU CAN JUST WALK INTO THE SEA, LIE DOWN AND FLOAT LIKE A DROWNED CORPSE, AS LONG AS YOU COME UP FOR WATER

ALSO, SEASHELLS

Tanya · 2014-12-17 03:53:46

Sometimes I'd see how far I could go out.

other times I'd lay down in the shallow water feel the pull of the current before the splash of the wave.

It's kind of interesting to feel the water be pulled from underneath you as it forms a wave.

I always got burned at the beach. always.

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:59:12

who here hasn't been to the beach other than me

Anonus · 2014-12-17 03:59:45

I possibly could have gone because Michigan but WE CAN NEVER GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT THE FAMILY FOR TOO LONG AND CERTAINLY NOT TO DETROIT BECAUSE THAT'S TOO INTERESTING

Imipolex G · 2014-12-17 04:00:17

you don't wanna go to Detroit

Anonus · 2014-12-17 04:00:42

have you been there personally

Anonus · 2014-12-17 04:00:50

mother says it's dangerous

Anonus · 2014-12-17 04:05:28

also I've been to Florida too but never "the beach"

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 04:11:14

Man, there's like five of them that everybody you know is willing to go to at one time, and there will be arguments about which beach to go to because X beach has brown water and Y beach has too many people and Z beach has mucky, mucky sand.

Imipolex G · 2014-12-17 04:24:22

Detroit is Detroit, I shouldn't have to tell you anything else.

You know what can be nice at the beach? bikini boobs Curling your toes up in the sand where the water is, watery sand, it's kind of cool and smooshy

Anonus · 2014-12-17 04:42:00

I guess my envy over "the beach" is derived from the fact that I feel weird about being the only Heaper who doesn't seem to live in a coastal area

Anonus · 2014-12-17 04:42:13

or anywhere "normal people" do

Obā-san · 2014-12-17 04:44:22

im in almost literally the middle of north america

Obā-san · 2014-12-17 04:45:29

u see how far away the coast is

in all directions

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-17 04:51:59

I live on a tropical island.

I hate the beach.

Klinotaxis · 2014-12-17 05:19:55

great lakes, tho

Obā-san · 2014-12-17 05:24:05

never been

eriophora zia · 2014-12-17 05:35:16

Growing up in Oregon, the beach is a place you go to make sand castles, fly kits, maybe pick up some (kind of shitty and usually broken) seashells. Also shop. There are some really cool shops in Lincoln City, actually, and Seaside.

The Oregon Coast is wayyyy too cold to swim in unless you've got a drysuit or something. Or unless you want hypothermia. Wading you can do if you're brave and don't care about being frozen.

It's also REALLY windy, typically, and fairly chilly even in summer.

All that being said, the Oregon Coast is truly a gorgeous area. If you like looking at pretty scenery, it's great.

I've heard the Washington beaches here are even worse, haha, with gravel rather than sand for the most part. I haven't personally experienced a Washington beach, though.

Miss Miko Mayonegg · 2014-12-17 05:36:38

I went to the beach a whole bunch of times.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 05:45:26

Eh, it's just hypothermia

sunn wolf · 2014-12-17 11:38:08

the beach owns

sunn wolf · 2014-12-17 11:38:31

i swam in the sea in scotland once tho and Never Again

Princess Alice · 2014-12-17 18:35:14

I've never been to a proper beach because I have lived in Ohio my entire life, and not near the Lake.

I did go to a fakey fake beach at a man-made lake once, but it wasn't very fun...

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 18:57:47

scottish sea monsters

lee4hmz · 2014-12-17 19:07:40

I think we went to the actual beach once when I was little, to Myrtle Beach, SC. I was more interested in running around the hotel and playing on the elevators than I was in the beach. This was in 1981, I think.

We didn't make the beach a yearly thing until the late 1990s, when we started going to Ocean City, MD every summer. That stopped after 2008 because we didn't have the money.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 19:16:20

I'm surprisingly more of a beach person now than I used to be. .

Younger me was all "but the sand gets everywhere, man" and I didn't figure out the floating thing until a few years ago. Which is ironic because the sand is much, much more of a problem now that I have long hair.

Tanya · 2014-12-17 19:42:50

You just cook the sand to get glass, obvs.

lee4hmz · 2014-12-17 19:44:28

I've never liked seawater all that much, and not only am I relatively fair-skinned (brown hair and hazel eyes), I have vitiligo, which means I burn really easily. That said, it's still fun to go to things on the periphery like the boardwalk and the shops and such.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-17 19:48:37

But then the glass gets everywhere

Tanya · 2014-12-17 19:52:50

Also, this is gonna sound mean, but I used to throw ice cubes for the seagulls, see them rush towards it like it was food and then end up disappointed.

sunn wolf · 2014-12-17 23:34:49

actually, that owns, because seagulls are fucking dicks

Salix Babylonika · 2014-12-17 23:46:23

actually, seagulls are birds

Tachyon · 2014-12-18 00:24:19

[posted in the wrong thread, please ignore]

thenamelesssamurai · 2014-12-18 00:30:02

My family used to go to the beach all the time, but I don't think we've gone since I got stung by jellyfish.

One-Winged Eagle · 2014-12-18 01:01:53

I should totally throw ice cubes at seagulls.

Imipolex G · 2014-12-18 02:34:48

sunn wolf said:
actually, that owns, because seagulls are fucking dicks

this is correct, one of them stole a hot dog from me one time.

PatchAwful · 2014-12-19 00:01:24

There was a sign near were I live saying 'Do Not Feed The Birds, They Are Vermin And Cause Damage' (meaning seagulls), that someone had vandalised and changed birds to humans.

Yarrun XIX · 2014-12-22 06:51:22

So, went to the beach earlier today.

It's still pretty awesome, but water is exhausting, and you do have to get to the beach that no one else is going to. Crowds are always a problem, but at the beach they are anathema to fun.

Bee · 2014-12-22 19:39:44

I live in the Pacific Northwest, where "the beach" is a place where rocks, freezing water, biting wind, and tree-sized flotsam go to die just about year round. Anyone who's there is likely either a marine researcher/enthusiast, a photographer, a hippie recording hour long ocean waves soundtracks, Polar Bear Club, a really hardcore surfer with a really good drysuit and a tree resistant skull, collecting seashells for quaint gift shops, a kinky weirdo who likes stepping barefoot on washed-up jellyfish and urchins, or just now painfully learning that we don't have California beaches unless you're a fan of hypothermia and vicious undertows and wondering if they can get a travel refund.

Obā-san · 2014-12-22 19:45:38

that sounds pretty ideal

Bee · 2014-12-22 19:48:45

It's the jellyfish and urchins thing isn't it. Be honest with me now.

Klinotaxis · 2014-12-22 19:51:56

the tide pools are nice though.

I never went to "the beach" as a kid

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