”You shouldn’t know from it,” is the best way to sum it up.
“Morris wake up it’s light out.” Yawning- Morris replies Shirley it’s only 7:00 o’clock.
Ok I’m getting up geez. Between the second glass of Rose’ that we split and staying up to watch the new Mel Brooks special on HBO The 99 year old man, I need a minute. Here she says take a couple of extra strengths and get up it’s gonna be a gorgeous day.
Plus Morris we can park the new Lincoln close to the entrance to the beach, it’s safer.
So Shirley has prepared the soft boiled eggs, a half of a toasted bialy and for a treat cause it’s Sunday and here’s where the “you shouldn’t know from it starts,”pickled herring in cream sauce with onions.
The beach bag is packed with two big striped, albeit worn out beach towels- all together “you shouldn’t know from it,” from the Far Rockaway beach days.
Amongst the contents in the yup! striped yellow and white canvas beach bag from the 80’s, is an old Coppertone and zinc oxide plus a new spf 50 lotion.
Now onto Lunchtime in Delray.
Shirley packed a special salami on rye with deli mustard and potato salad. Plastic forks she saved from the Bagel place and a thermos of iced coffee. A veritable throw back feast laced with such good memories. So they get to the beach and even though they pull up in their brand new Lincoln Morris won’t pay the beach guy to set up very comfortable beach chairs. So he schlepps the new beach chairs they bought at Target, BOGO – buy one get one. Who could pass up such a deal? One caveat -getting up from them after finishing the Sunday crossword puzzle to get wet after a dunk in the water was a major gantseh megillah.
In days gone by they would bring a transistor radio, prop it up on the beach towel, croon out loud to the Mills Brothers on WMCA 570 AM. Now they both put in AirPods, no singing aloud. The only noise Morris hears after he dozes and takes a nap is Shirley telling him to turn over on his stomach he’s too red. Oh what fun, exactly what they needed after a week of in unison “ you shouldn’t know from it.” Shirley had a tooth pulled. Morris had a colonoscopy. All’s well that ends ( joke) well.
So they take a little beach stroll, they collect some sea shells, grab a handful of raisins and bridge mix before they pack up to go home.
Next act Dinner.
They are meeting the Kleins at Motek. The food is delicious , reservations impossible to get. For those in the know you know. They made reservations a month ago.
The best Pita and hummus. “Try it you’ll like it,” Morris tells his friend Bob Klein as he rubs in some aloe lotion Shirley rubbed on his face- so he shouldn’t peel too badly from his sunburn. Now this is what we call a Successful day -Mic drop!