One of the things that always cracks me up about tropical islands it the fact that it never fails that you will, at one point or another, see some beach bum who has lived on the island for the last twenty years making his living walking up and down the beach with a metal detector. In fact, it’s so fascinating that I’ve made a point to talk to almost every single one of these guys I’ve ever seen and the conversation is always just as similar as their eerily glistening, hairy and over tanned bellies. These guys will talk at length about how they make their entire living off of metal they pull out of the sand but will never pull up anything more than a soda pop tab while you’re walking and talking. I’m not sure what kind of diamond rings they’re pulling up when I’m not around but even in a place with a fairly low cost of living (like, say, Arkansas) you’d think it would be tough to live off of soda pop tabs.
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