The Beach,

So I spent the weekend with my mom and lil bro at the beach. Something interesting happened so I will.

we got up nice and early to get a good parking spot and we were on south beach at 10 a.m. (it being a few blocks away, we were staying on alton and 4th in the gran murano, don't hate)

so we're floating around in the water when we see all the old guys with their metal detectors scouring the coast for whatever it is they find there, I like to think sunken treasure but really its just fifteens bracelets and senior rings and hoop earrings with names like yusnaidys in the middle.

but I digress

so my little brother, being from panama, and 12, has never seen retired jews and cubans, and the occasional juban (jewban?) scouring the coast for your mothers wedding band. He asked me what they were doing, I told him. I Als oremember the explanation ending with "they usually never find anything"

as soon as the words left my mouth one of the geezers stops and starts passing his metal detector over a spot not more that 5 yards away from us. he scoops up a bit of sand, looks down, pushes the sand around, and leaves.

When he left the little pile of sand kind of flattened out and we see something a golden color glimmering in the sand. I was pretty sure it was nothing (I was intrigued) so I sent my brother so he could get a kick out of it (I was lazy).

As he's over there poking around my mom squints over and says "Is that acondom wrapper?" then I said something like "I don't think condom wrappers set of metal detectors, they have foil but I don't think that sets off the detector"

So he picks up said object, looks at it curiously, and tosses it, then wipes the sand off his hands. He wades over to us and says "It's something called magnum."