The phone rang at 8 a.m. It was Todd. He told Amy to get ready for her birthday surprise by suiting up in her long underwear, rubber pants, poncho and yellow hat, just like the Gorton’s Fisherman wears. Amy was also instructed to get her large fly fishing boots out of storage. She had received these from Todd on her previous birthday.
Todd arrived at 9:17 in his BMW Isetta. He barged right in to Amy’s studio apartment and blindfolded her with a handkerchief he had received as a present from his new Japanese neighbors. Amy repeatedly asked what was going on and Todd replied she would see when he took the blindfold off.
At approximately 10:23 a.m. the pair arrived at the beach. The reason for the late arrival was that a decision was made to stop at a gas station for Blueberry Muffin Loafs and bottled orange juice from concentrate. As Amy stepped out of the German compact, she heard crashing surf and felt a chill through her layers of yellow rainproof plastic and thermal insulation. At this point, Todd untied her blindfold to reveal matching personalized his and hers skim boards sticking out of the sand at the beach. Amy gave Todd a big hug and then the pair proceeded to kick sand into each other’s eyes in a flirtatious manner.
After the sand was washed off of their corneas, Amy sat down and enjoyed a Pabst tallboy as Todd set up and lit a small charcoal grill that would be used to cook Bratwurst once they had worked up an appetite from skim boarding. Todd proceeded to demonstrate how to skim board so that they could work up this appetite. He knew the basic technique, but proceeded to fall anyways. He got scraped up by sand and shells and was bit by a crab on the chin. Amy was a quick learner and she skimmed across the tide for 3 miles straight and had to get a ride back to where Todd was crying in her absence by a local teen on a pink Honda Spree.
After Amy wiped Todd’s tears away, the pair proceeded to consume 5 Bratwurst topped with raw onion each. Amy fell asleep and Todd got gas, so it was decided that it was time to go home. Because Todd is such a wild guy, he drove his car backwards on the trip home, and since no one had seen a car like his, no one knew the difference.