The beach probably is safer due to those traffic control posts and a larger lifeguard corps. And, for the college-age spring breaker, the town has more nightclubs than ever. But not everything has changed. Kids still slowly cruise the beach, ogling each other and having loads of fun. Kids still blast their car stereos as loudly as they can, though the proliferation of the subwoofer speaker during the past 10 years has introduced a new element of THUD to the beach.
Kids still wear dumb beach fashions.
The average college kid on the beach still is just as glassy-eyed and tragically sunburned as he ever was. Students still set up campsites with beaten old couches, Texas flags and obscene sand sculptures. Spring breakers still drive down my dead-end road and turn around in my front lawn when they discover it's not the road to the beach. All rights reserved.