Why should bennies go home?

Bennies should go home because that's where they live. They should come here, mind their manners, spend their money, fall in love with the place, go home and dream about it for the next ten months.

Then come back next year and do it all over again.

 

As long as they keep bringing their money season after season the local municipalities will always welcome them and their trash with open arms.

 

why should bennies go home? b/c, as noted, that is where they are from & where they belong. but, should they visit, they need to mind their manners & behave respectfully & (dare i say it) deferentially to the locals & the environment of the place they visit. treating the inhabitants of a beach town as if they are beneath you & exist only to be at your beck & call is unacceptable. throwing your trash around like the world is your garbage dump is unacceptable. your standards of behavior should not change simply b/c you are away from home.
also, do not attempt to bring your hometown w/ you. it's a different culture here, & we like that. we like that the nearest target or walmart is 30 minutes away. those places suck anyway. so does red lobster; go to a real seafood restaurant & learn was fish really tastes like. if you forgot something or need something, go to one of the little mom & pop shops that line the main street of the town you're visiting. they need the business.

oh, & point of clarification: "benny" is the term used in north jersey. in southern jersey, it's "shoobie". always has been, always will be.

 

I've seen more sh!t in this past weekend to cause me to lose all hope in the human race than I usually see in an entire month in the spring fall or winter. People have absolutely no respect for each other. Not a drop of patience or kindness. Everyone is out for themselves with no regard for how it affects anyone else.

 

we had a super good swell here last spring and a mob of surfers from nags head, va. bch. and here were out on the only good breaking peak. the amount of trash left behind at the cul de sac where everyone parked was sickening. several of us picked it all up. the last thing we all need to loose is parking rights here too.

 

Well when i visit lbi i will make sure to pick up trash so locals dont get mad. But actually as for trash last time i was in jersey those damn gulls where picking the trash can looking for food. Left a huge mess, so dont automatically blame people just cause where supposed to right everytime.

 

42... you nailed it, brother. But you have to wonder... is it partly our fault?

If you've ever traveled, and really loved a place you've been, you don't want it to change. You hate to see it abused, polluted, disrespected... You envy the people who live there, know you're not part of that culture, and understand why you never will be. A place like that MEANS something to you. It's a special place. More often than not, these places are natural places. It's the natural beauty of the ocean, beaches, back bays... or deserts... or mountains... or whatever it is that draws you to the place. It's not some cheesy, kitchy, trying-to-be-something-it's not fraud, built JUST FOR THE BENNIES. Places like that don't get respect, because they don't deserve it. They get used and abused, by tourists and locals alike, because when you go there, you can FEEL the difference. The locals get jobs there, and make good money, and put up with a lot of bullsh!t. But they hate it. And THAT'S the difference. When you build something that attracts idiots, that's what you get. When you keep it simple, clean, and beautiful, you attract people with a greater aesthetic appreciation and and sense of dignity for cultures unlike their own.

 

I meet up with a gaggle of gulls every thursday for poker nite, they always bring the ice....ha-good one!

 

+1 on "shoobies" in snj. always has been always will. 6 more weeks and balance will begin to be restored. warm water is over-rated....

 

now the real question is, did you clean it up?

 

Some years seem worse than others down here. We don't have a ubiquitous term for them, but I prefer "Tourons".
The worst for me is driving around them and especially trying to get off WB if the drawbridge is up. Tourists love blasting by the line of cars waiting patiently in the correct lane then jumping in when their lane ends. I don't know what's worse though--the folks jumping in line or the folks letting them in. Come to think about it..... it's not just tourons that do it. The people jumping in line either have out-of-town plates or UNCW stickers on their cars--further galvanizing my ire for UNCW students.

 

"Tourons", LOL! that's clever.

 

there is no question in my mind that it is entirely our fault. we have pimped ourselves out for the almighty tourist dollar. we took our sleepy, peaceful fishing villages & turned them into towns full of kitschy amusement & water parks, t-shirt shops, & "attractions". we marketed our towns as places to get away from the heat of the cities that bookend our state, pleading for the bright, shiny city folk to come, please, bathe us in the holy light of your presence & spend your money so that our children won't starve or freeze come wintertime. the effects of the avarice-fueled dreams of our grandfathers are being heaped upon us...we, who have allowed our freedoms to be systematically degraded in favor of the rights & "needs" of the shoobie...no, you can't surf here b/c this area is for swimmers only. sorry, doesn't matter if you surf here by yourself the other 8 months out of the year. that's how it is. no, we can't move the lifeguard stand. this is street is the # already painted on the stand. it has to stay here. no, you can't just cross the beach to go surf b/c you don't have a beachtag. yes, i know you pay property taxes, but you have to buy a beachtag anyway.
but, like the slaves of old, don't sass the shoobie who deigns to patronize your store, just bow & scrape like always so that they don't take offense & get huffy & walk out.

 

sounds like a dirty jersey move bro!

 

ok- so has anyone else ever noticed this??

Here is the situation:

Late sunday night - riding your bike through belmar- on the street, along the boardwalk side over all the now empty parking spaces... the amount of trash is horrendous!!! its like ppl just dump out ALL the trash in their car before they leave! bags of burger king. empty water bottles. spilled cups of milk shakes. its gross... its EVERYWHERE! What i don't understand, is that there is a trash can within 50ft of every spot- but the trash just ends up in the street- literally right next to where their car door would open...

Each year it gets worse.

My question is this- do these people do this in their own home towns? Would they like if I did it in the park where they take their children?? what do their parks and public places look like? what do their homes look like?

ok ok-- im done now... the way they handle their trash really tells much about them...

Thanks for the post, maybe more ppl will be aware of the problem. way way to often I head out for an early morning sess only having to walk by heaping mounds of trash from the night before.

 

I was driving north on Ocean in Long Branch Sunday. A family with mom, dad several little kids, maybe toddler to about 9 years, all loaded with beach gear, was in the crosswalk, patiently waiting to cross from the ocean side, going west. I slowed to a stop and waved them to cross, well, the driver behind me laid on the horn and ACTUALLY TRIED TO PASS ME ON THE LEFT!!! This rancid ***** actually crossed a double line and scared the **** out of a family because she was inconvenienced for a few seconds by our pedestrian-friendly regulations. Maybe she was a born and raised local, but I am pretty sure she wasn't, since her car had NY State plates. And this scenario happens all the time, all day long all summer long. So thats the answer - because most of them have zero class and are basically human trash

 

I find it comical that the NJ crowd is complaining about litter. Most of the trash is from your own lousy crowd, not vacationers. And blaming it on the seagulls??? Come on... even seagulls fly upside down over New Jersey.... there's nothing worth even ****ting on.

 

bennies = $ that keeps your local economy alive. unfortunately, some of them bring their low class attitude and behavior with their $.

deal with them for a few months out of the year. they're not here when the surf is good