There was a beach very close to where I lived. It wasn't one of those big resort beaches, though. It was a remote kind of area, with not too many people around, but enough people to let me know that there were people there. I was relaxing under an umbrella shoved into the sand in a beach chair. I was lying there reading a book. It was a Saturday, and I was going to lie out by the beach and relax, have a couple of cold one...