Second Beach

After biking the seawall and sticking our toes in the sand on one of the first summer days Vancouver has had this year, we needed to stop and refuel. We decided we may as well grab a bite to eat at the concession on Second Beach since there were picnic tables available. The lineups for food were pretty long, in fact I was surprised that the bathroom lineups for the ladies room were shorter, since being a female usually means you have mastered the pee-​pee dance. But I was in and out of that bathroom before the BF had even gotten up to order.
The bathrooms are public, so you can imagine what they are like, you basically have to hold your breath when you go in like you’re swimming underwater and pray to god that you can get your business done quickly enough to get out of there alive. There’s always toilet paper on the ground and children running around half naked from the swimming pool outside. The seats are never clean, so you have to squat like a ninja and hope that there is handsoap when you get out.
At the concession I ordered the veggie burger and a small fries. The veggie burger was mostly bun, and was drier than the Sahara desert. It was as though I had a mouthful of sand and saltene crackers all at the same time. I pumped a pile of ketchup and mustard on that beast but it still didn’t go down too well. The fries were okay, and you get a lot for a small order, but you have to put your own salt on, and of course when you go to use the salt shaker, way more comes out than you had anticipated so now you have a bowl of salt with a side of fries. I paid $ 3 for a small Dasani bottled water, which they must be making a fucking mint of off. How many people drink water when they bike the seawall or after they’ve taken a dip in the public piss pool? Perhaps if I had half a brain I would have brought my own bottled water. In any case, I didn’t finish my lunch even though I felt like I earned it for spending the whole day biking through the park and working up an appetite. Next time, I’ll just bike over to Denman and get some real street eats.