The governing bodies of the towns along the Jersey Shore will have to wait until this weekend, May's last, to see just how well their social distancing guidelines on their beaches and boardwalks work. Through no fault of their own, Memorial Day Weekend did not give them a true and accurate test. The weather was not well-suited for beach activities, including Saturday's "every animal grab an Ark buddy" rainfall, which held down the number of day trippers. One might have thought that after two-plus months of getting wedgied by life, an eighty-degree-plus, sun-soaked long weekend had been earned by us good residents in the State of Concrete Gardens.
Nope.
Nevertheless, it was nice to spend the long weekend at the beach with the Missus, Sam I am, and Joe. We did a whole lot of nothing, which is just about my favorite thing to do at the beach. Saturday night we supported one of our favorite local establishments, Harrigan's Pub in Sea Girt, and Sunday night I hopped on over to Hoffman's Ice Cream in Spring Lake to pick up - through the window - the ice cream I had just ordered on-line. Neither experience was the same as it ever was but each was something I needed. Each made me feel good and reminded me that while things are not yet back to normal, they are continuing to move in that direction.
Slowly but surely. Step by step.
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