walking along a
wall which separates
boardwalk from
beach, but the wall is high. there are
stairs up and over periodically, but each time i come to some, the beach on the other side is either too rocky, too
polluted, or too brackish to bother. finally i find a
perfect stretch of beach, but the way up and over is monopolized by a woman in a
wheelchair (who may or may not have been my
mother) complaining about the lack of wheelchair access. instead of waiting, i jump down from the top of the wall only to find that the
sand is contaminated by small white
worms which are sticking to my skin, then burrowing in and which will eventually destroy my
liver. they are covering my hands and arms.
discusted by the
beach, but still wanting to
swim, i find an indoor
pool. as i pass by the
hottubs, i see two (sorta)
friends lounging out. One of them is
asleep, his head almost completely under
water. he might
drown, but i don't like him enough to call attention to that fact. the other, named laura, offers me a
bathing suit, but she is quite bigger than i am and so i doubt it will
fit properly. somehow it does. as i am getting into the hottub, she calls me "pegalicious" which annoys me, so i
strip off her
bathing suit and leave, not realizing until i am
outside that i am
naked.