But my friend Clark Sterling just got back from a cruise and I was dying to hear all about it but I wanted to take a walk on the beach before I headed back to Portland. And I thought, "I can't call him while I'm on the beach because that would ruin the idyllic walking-on-the-beach moment and other people would think I was an asshole who doesn't appreciate nature."But then I thought, "Well, how do I know that?" I mean, I've never talked on a cell phone while walking on a beach. And since this is my year of doing New Things, I figured I better try it.
So I did. And I had a great talk with Clark that made me laugh. And I still enjoyed walking on the beach, though I didn't notice nearly as much as I would. But I felt oddly liberated just for having done something I wouldn't normally do and of which I vaguely disapprove.
But I'm not likely to do it again.
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I feel the same way.
As long as the cell phone chat in the movie theater stays on the list of things you haven't done.
I talked, or rather shouted, on the phone at South Beach to my friend back home to let her know that I was on the beach at an ungodly hour in the morning because Diane Sawyer was there with GMA and Bon Jovi was playing on the beach.
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