From my post about feed lot sunsets, you might think that I believe everyone that doesn’t come from California, Hawaii, Florida, or at least the beach is rural.
Not True.
Let’s talk Los Angeles, for example. It’s not all peaches and cream, cowabunga, and tube rides on the coast always.
I’ve been in fine CA restaurants, where when you walk in, everything goes quiet. And you start to get the feeling everyone else is looking at you. Kinda sizing you up. And the risk involved with mugging you for your cell phone and wallet out in the parking lot, after you eat.
Or how, as a teen girl, you can walk onto just about any beach in So Cal – my guess it’s just about anywhere – and just know you’re being judged, evaluated, reviewed, examined, assessed…
By all the local girls, they’re talking about this and that… you just know, that whatever they’re saying about you isn’t particularly kind, not from these sweet teens… they find something or everything wrong about you….
As it turns out, there’s often more sharks on the beach than in the water. And they are much nastier…
So, no, it’s not all hula hoops and chocolate chip cookies here all the time. Is it the same in the Midwest? Arizona? You tell me.