Kicker about bennies is the actual residents of the Jersey shore really consider any outsider a "bennie" and they typically dont like them. And to a certain extent. sometimes with good reason
But without the "bennies" they have no economy. so if you go there. just remember. dispite their friendly faces. they generally dont like you. But love your money
Cops seem to outright hate outsiders. Or at the very least see any tourists as venerable cash cows
I avoid going to the jersey shore (Seaside in particular) But If You've never been there. Its pretty cool to go to once.
My wife LOVES the Jersey shore and usually spends a week down there every year. I bow out. I'd rather go to work instead. Occasionally I'll tolerate a single day there. But after that Im ready to go home as everything that interests me aboutthe place I can do in a couple hours.
I walk from one end of the boardwalk to the other looking at women that are either young enough to be my daughter. Or I cant have.(that married thing)
I've often joked that putting a married man on the beach is like putting a steak in front of a dog 10 feet away and the dogs leash being only 8 feet long.
Orr some that look so disgusting in a bathing suit that they should have laws against them wearing them.
After I've done that
I get a dozen clams on the halfshell, a Hot sausage sandwich (which arent as good as they used to be) A Beer and a slice of pan pizza that is the best outside of Brooklyn. Which hands down has the best pan style pizza (real pizza not the kind with all the rediculous toppings that are popular now)
After I've dont that. Im like OK I'm done. Mayyybe I'll do a bit of crabbing. But thats it
I dont do the rides and I dont play the stands. And the water is often freezing even in mid August. So what am I gonna do?
Hang out on scalding hot sand getting broiled like a lobster for a week on a beach I had to pay to get on with water in front of me thats too cold to go in while some jacknut cop writes me a parking ticket for parking an inch and a half over the line? Or for not backing into my parking space?
No thanks. I'm more of a mountain type guy anyway. And I already know what the Jersey shore is about (sucking or extorting money out of my bank account any way they can. If I want ocean water. I'll go to some resort in the tropics.
Oh exactly how yacked off are the cops down there?
3 years ago my wife's car broke down on the side of a fairly busy road with a flat tire with our daughter in the car so she pulled off to the shoulder on the road and tried calling her brother who was also down there to come and help her change the tire. Unfortunately his phone was turned off because he was taking a nap.
A cop pulled up and after having to present him with her paperwork, she explained the situation to him. Not wanting to stay with the car with our daughter in there because it was such a busy road. She got the cop to giver her and my daughter a lift to near where she was staying with my brother in law. Nice enough gesture right? So she leaves her emergency flashers on and at the cops suggestion leaves a note saying she was going for help and would be right back on the windsheild
So she Wakes my brother in law and in less then a half hour They get back to her car. What does she find in place of the note she left but a parking ticket. she tried calling in to explain what happened but no go. she had to deal with the ticket.
