I needed to talk to him. I didn’t know why, but for some important reason I needed to talk to him. It was one of those instinctual feelings, and I couldn’t let it go. Finally three awkward words slipped out of my mouth: “Rough waves, huh?”
He looked at me strangely for a moment, but then replied in a very friendly fashion, “Yeah they sure are.”
I was spending Labor Day weekend at Ocean City, my last one in high school, and I had decided to take one last swim before I left. It was t