This is it?! This?!

So just like any other weekend, Paula and I are sitting in our beach chairs with the water washing over us. We like to put our chairs in the water - it's a little trick I picked up in the Caribbean. Like this:


Anyways, to continue - we were kicked back in our chairs enjoying all the fantastic waves that were rolling in (courtesty of Hurricane Bill), and all the cute little surfer dudes around us when Paula decided that she needed a smoke break. Watchin' surfer dudes is hard work, ya know.

So Paula takes off for the shore and leaves me on surfer watch. Then, out of nowhere, this HUGE wave washes in and takes Paula's chair with it. I try to grab for her chair only to end up losing mine in the process. The wave ends up pulling me and the two beach chairs under and mangles us about (my arms ended up twisted in the chairs). Then the current propels us down the beach several yards before, luckily, slamming us into a rock.


As funny as it sounds, it was scary! I'm a pretty cool & calm person normally. But the feeling of being trapped within the tangle of chairs really sent me into a sort of panic. In that panicked state, it was almost impossible to fight the current. As badly banged up as I am right now from hitting the rock (I have bruises, cuts and scrapes on my back and on my arms), I shudder to think that I could have drowned had the rock not stopped me.

But here's the strange/funny part. People claim that a person's life will flash before their eyes right before they die. Wanna know what was running through my head? This is it?! This is how I'm going to die? This?! Woman gets tangled in beach chair and drowns. Autopsy reveals she had Funyun breath and was too lazy to shave any higher than her knees that morning.

Believe it or not, Paula has the entire thing on film (and no, I won't be posting the photos). She didn't realize what was going on - from her vantage point on shore it was funny and just looked like me being a doof. Once she saw me hit the rock, however, she knew it wasn't a doofus attack and that I was hurt.

Back on dry land we took stock of my injuries and noticed that I'd lost my "Life Is Good" hat during the ordeal. And no, the irony is not lost on me.


Life is good! Every day is an adventure - don't let this be it. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.