Random Question: (long answer)

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Random Question:
What's the most amount of sand you've ever had in your swimming trunks?

Answer:

In 1993 (yeah, that was a long time ago), some friends and I went to Hawai'i. We were staying up in a town on O’hau called Makaha. The beach up there was great. You'd swim what seemed like only 10 feet from shore and could not touch the bottom so there were awesome waves to body surf. Of course we had to try our hand a it. How hard could it be; just swim out and catch a wave in.

Not so fast! Easy swim out, great ride in, but at the beach, the wave would pick you up and slam you into it. It'd push you half way up the beach shoveling sand into your trunks before trying to pull you back into the ocean. Needless to say, there was a good amount of sand left in the trunks so you couldn't just shake it out. But how convenient that the ocean was right there.

The only way to get that much sand out was to swim back out, remove the trunks entirely, turn them inside out and shake the sand out. All the while you'd have to tread water and keep an eye on the waves to make sure a big one was not coming. As soon as one came, it was a mad scramble to get the shorts back on before being slammed once again into the beach. Might have gotten in trouble flopping on the beach all naked but the worst part would have been the pain from being pushed on your stomach with uncovered private parts up a beach full of hot sand.

Needless to say, necessity won out and there were no beached naked men. We spent the day entertaining ourselves with the waves and sand. Guess that gives new meaning to the term “rinse and repeat.” Now that was a fun day!