Are you Mark?

Nancy, being from Philly, doesn't think summer is complete without a trip to the Jersey shore.  We did our pretty much annual Crashcation last week.  Crashcation is the term we use for crashing with friends or relatives.  It is much better than a Staycation or a Nocation.

Every morning I would get up early and walk on the beach, sea wall and/or boardwalk. One morning about 7 AM, I stopped for coffee on the boardwalk and then proceeded to a bench overlooking the Atlantic to enjoy my coffee accompanied by the sounds and smells of the ocean.  An older woman (maybe she was around my age : ) ) sits down on the other end of the bench and asks "Are you Mark?"  It seems she was there for a blind date morning walk, meeting in front of the coffee shop.  We then spot Mark on the next bench just as the woman's friend who had apparently set up the date appeared to introduce the two.  Mark must have thought blind date literally meant the other person was blind.  Around the same age as the woman, he was wearing a baseball cap backwards, ratty gray T shirt with sleeves torn off and a pair of aviator sun glasses hanging from neck of his shirt.  And, didn't look to have shaven for the last day or two.

In the photo above you can see the skyline of Atlantic City as it appeared from the boardwalk.  Judging by the look on the woman's face, Mark was not going to "get lucky" with his boardwalk date.  Maybe he should have tried for a different kind of luck in Atlantic City.

Mark, in case no one ever mentioned it to you....
You only get one chance to make a first impression.

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