The Beach is Overrated🏖️agree or Disagree?
Summary
A straphanger delivers a full-throated anti-beach manifesto that's equal parts observational comedy and genuine grievance. The complaints pile up fast: SPF 80 that turns sandy, freezing water with mysterious sharp objects underfoot, constantly worrying about your phone getting stolen, currents dragging you 50 feet from your towel, moving a beach umbrella every five minutes to chase shade, day drinking to cope with it all, then riding the train home an hour with sand all in your crotch. Kareem lets the rant breathe. It's a masterclass in committed contrarianism about something most people claim to love.
Full Transcript
The beach is the most overrated destination in the world. 100% disagree. The beach? Yeah, I hate it.
Why don't you like the beach? So first of all, I've got to put like SPF 80. And then all the sand is sticking to my skin, right? And then so you go into the water, which is usually freezing. You're stepping on all kinds of weird sharp—and you don't know what it is. And you're trying to look back at your towel because you had to leave your phone in your wallet and you want to make sure nobody's stealing your—you're trying to look back at it. You're already the current's moved you like 50 feet away, so you don't even know where it is. Then you finally go back. And if you had the foresight to bring a beach umbrella, you got to move your situation every five minutes, you know, to—to stay in the shade. And um, you know, so you're just like day drinking to deal with all this. And then you've just got a headache and you're drunk. And then you got to take the train an hour back with sand all in your crotch. It's horrible.
So what's your take?