Spring Break

It's Spring Break here and it appears like Daytona is trying to steal back the college spring break crown.

First of all, this is a lie:

If you think you're going to relax and soak up some sun this week like the girl in the above picture, think again.

This is reality:

Apparently, the beach here has some magical properties that makes college kids insane and stupid. Oh, wait...that's alcohol.

Anyway, our emergency rooms are bursting at the seams. We have an elderly cancer patient that we've tried to get direct -admitted (so he wouldn't have to wait for hours in pain in a packed ER waiting room) for an impending hip fracture for the last FIVE DAYS, and there are no available beds at the hospital. We were just able to get him in yesterday. My heart breaks for that poor guy, because college kids are idiots, doing idiot things like dislocating each other's shoulders and punching each other in the face.

I need to go back to school to be an ER doctor in Daytona Beach, I think. I'd have all the excitement and money I want. And I'd get to lecture college kids on how their stupidity costs more than what their parents are paying for their ER visit.

I remember going to Daytona Beach on Spring Break in 1987, just out of high school and barely in college. I didn't drink back then, and neither did my friends, so we didn't experience any real insanity. We witnessed other kids being dorks and jerks, but we sort of kept ourselves separated. I remember we were right up by the front of the stage watching a newly popular Bruce Hornsby. I was impressed at how well he was able to play the piano in the midst of chaos.

I just found this picture online of the 1987 Bruce Hornsby Spring Break crowd. Maybe I'm in there somewhere.

Being the introverted person I am, I didn't go to Daytona Beach during Spring Break very often. In fact, that Spring of '87 may have been the last time I've been to Daytona Beach during spring break.

However, I would like to go over there this Sunday, when the crowds are disappearing, with my metal detector, to scoop up all the stuff those kids leave behind.

Not much else is going on. I've got a couple doctor appointments this week, then I should be doctor free for at least a few months. Woo hoo!

I'm looking forward to Fennboree, and really, really hoping I can pull everything together and go. I think it'll be a lot more tame than Spring Break in Daytona Beach, although I'm pretty sure there might be a few people who want to punch me in the face. Once they actually meet me, though, I'm also pretty sure they'll change their mind. I'm a nice person. Really. :)