Learning from Past Summers

I was looking through my email inbox for something, and I came across an email chain between me and Jim. I had just gotten back from the Jersey Shore. I’d been telling him about how awful it was, and he found it on google maps.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jim
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:58 PM
To: Alexis
Subject: Awful!


Jim: Just north of Seaside Heights, NJ. Eeek!
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=point+pleasant,+nj&ll=39.991391,-74.061713&spn=0.007579,0.021458&t=h&om=1


Me: That's EXACTLY the place I was talking about last night. It's even worse on the ground - - hot, unfriendly, everyone is white and republican. It's the most outwardly exclusive and racist place I've ever been to in America. F*ckin Jersey.


Jim: Wow. What amazing powers of clairvoyance I have! Hee hee!
Strange configuration - staggering the houses like that. Also, is that concrete I'm seeing surrounding the houses? Like it looks like just one huge field of concrete upon which homogeneous dwellings are placed.
Effing weird.


Me: It's sandy concrete and pale beige and pink pebbles for the driveways and "gardens", which are little pebble moats around the houses.


Jim: [sound of me hurling]