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At the beach recently I sat enjoying a snowcone al fresco. Next to the ice cream place was a stand called "Beach Burro Service." It was a guy you could hire for a nominal fee to lug all your crap from the parking lot to the beach. I watched this poor schmoe hauling all sorts of beach-enjoying apparatus to the delight of pasty, overweight vacationers.

I thought that was the worst job I'd ever seen. Then I saw the blue sky, the pretty girls and the crashing waves and realized this guy was the luckiest jackass on the beach.

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    Christopher almost 6 years ago

    Neville's current vacation drabbles reminded me of something I saw when I was down at the beach a few weeks ago. It's funny how you can be thinking one thing and then have a mini-epiphany and it completely changes your perspective.

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    Neville Hunt almost 6 years ago

    Sounds like a good opportunity round here too!

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    Christopher almost 6 years ago

    He was definitely busy. And I thought what a lousy job that must be and then I thought about the fact that he gets to spend the entire work day on the frickin' beach! It was an about face for me pretty quickly.

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    VerityAlways almost 2 years ago

    I saw something similar at the park, different perspective. Glad to have read this as the drabble of the day.

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    Christopher almost 2 years ago

    Thanks, Verity. I had forgotten about this. And I didn't know they were still doing the drabble of the day either. It also reminds me that I started a series sometime after I wrote this drabble called Stones where I would take a Rolling Stones song title and use it as inspiration for a drabble. I may have to revive that.

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    Neville Hunt almost 2 years ago

    Yes Christopher; that would be a great idea to give the Stones CPR!

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