Ahh.... Summer. The time when people get tanned at the beach, the time when people play volleyball with random local people, the time when kids are out of school, the time when people get sunburned.
So, yes, summer is awesome, amazing, cool, relaxing, hot, and all that jazz, but summer is also a time in which most families go on trips, hang out, generally do family events that drive kids mad, but also tie families together.
There are so many thigs that you can do during a summer, it would be futile to try to list them all. But don't follow that Disney show, Phineus and Ferb, because, in real life, most of those things those boys do are illegal.
Just come up with your own stuff.
Now, I've got three lists for you. I do love a nice list, whether it's a T0-Do list, or a grocery list, you can always alter them to benefit yourself. If you wanna, that is.
What You Don't Want:
1. A sun burn. Believe it or not, but if you stay out in the sun long enough, you'll get burned, no matter how dark you are to begin with. Not only are sunburns painful, but they are ugly, with their peeling-ness, and redness. So just get some sunscreen if you plan on being in the sun more than an hour, especially if you're doing that so called 'tanning' business by the pool. It's better to get a tan while in the pool, not near it, because the water supposedly helps keep you hydrated and you've got less of a chance of getting burned. Now, if it's a storm, that's another story.
2. A summer romance. Those things are said to never last long, and you don't want to enter the fall 'heart broken' because your little summer fling didn't last. While they may be fun at the time, they can get annoying. But, that's more of an opinion statement. So do whatever.
3. A broken arm/leg. Don't wait until you're completely free until you go and break a bone, wait 'til school! Then you've got an excuse for your lack of completed homework. Having a cast is annoying in the summer because that equals no swimming. Unless you get a waterproof one, which I've heard are even more irritating than the regulars. Don't break a bone at all, if you can help it, really.
4. A sun burn. I've already mentioned it, but I'm saying it again. Don't burn your skin. Really. It's not fun.
How to Annoy Someone at the Beach :
1. Lay out your stuff abnormally close to the next person. Personal space issues.
2. Talk loudly.
3. Scream like a moron.
4. Kick up sand when you walk.
5. 'Accidently' squirt your sunscreen on the person next to you. Whoops I 'missed'.
6. Run through sand castles. If it's a little kid's, stay away, don't make a child cry. It's bad on the karma points. But teenagers are fun to annoy.
7. Splash random people.
8. Hug strangers, works best after you've been in the water.
9. Practice your opera.
10. When no one is looking, switch people's sunglasses around. 'Hey! You stole my sunglasses!'
Do's For The Summer:
1. Get a tan. Like I said, don't burn yourself, but if you end the summer as pale -or paler- than you were when it began, you've gotten nothing accomplished. Don't live your life being compared to a snowflake. *Cough, C, cough.*
2. Do something different with your hair.
3. Annoy at least one person.
4. Help at least one person.
5. Attempt to go somewhere. It's not the funnest (no that is not a real word, yes I'm aware that is not a real word, yes I will continue to use the non-real word) thing in the world to stay in the same city the whole summer. Buy a knickknack when you get there. One that shall be cool for three hours before you put it on a shelf and it gets coated in dust and forgotten.
6. Go swimming. Anywhere.
7. Get banned from a store. Bonus points if it's an entire mall.
8. Paint a picture using your toes and paint. (you may use baby food too, but that is not as fun)
9. Draw pictures and words on sidewalks across the city with chalk. As questions, write quotes, draw characters, make people happy. Or irritated, if you do it, say, on someone else's driveway...
10. Adopt an entirely new personality if you go somewhere new. Bonus points for bad accents/ fake mustaches.
Summer is a time of fun, tans, burns, sunscreen, water fights, drama, summer romances, summer reading (yeah, don't forget about that one...), sun, sun, and more sun. Whether you're at the beach, or in the city, there'll be loads of sun unless you cross into the Southern Hemisphere.
Don't kill yourselves having fun, but do have fun. Just limit it, okay? Limit it to the line where it goes from fun to injury. SO, if you were planning on jumping off your roof, into a pool, that would be past that line that I mentioned. But if you were planning on shoving your older cousin who's making out with his new girl friend who'd never met the family before in the pool, that, well, you'll see.
Have fun. Stay non-red.
