Hit up the OC (that’s Ocean City) this weekend for some relaxation and general merriment.

Visited the always wonderful Dumser’s Dairyland on Friday night for some ice cream and had what might be the first American, English-speaking waitress to ever serve us there. Her name was Jennifer. She had freakishly good handwriting, as you can see here displayed as my order for chocolate ice cream with M&Ms…

“You get another topping with that”
“How about more M&Ms?”

So Jennifer drops off our ice cream and the check, comes back later to see if we need anything, and I drop the smooth line, “Hey, you have really nice handwriting.” She seems a little embarrassed and says that people give her crap for it all the time, so of course I–who have perhaps the world’s worst handwriting–tell her that she should be proud of it. And though we didn’t need anything else, she definitely checked on us a good three more times, including one mysterious time when she took our fully functioning salt shaker and brought it back a minute later. Good times.

Also oddly fun, as always, is waving to random people when driving down Coastal Highway, which everyone uses to get just about everywhere. People walking down the street, standing at a corner, waiting in the median, all targets of the random wave. And surprisingly, there seems to be about an 80 percent chance you get a wave back. I mean, here you are standing on the median in Ocean City and someone in a car you’ve never seen before waves at you…and for some reason you wave back…

But boy is it entertaining when they do, and then get this look of “Why did I just do that/who the bejeezus was that?”.

There are some more pictures on facebook, but I of course am too, what’s the word I’m looking for…oh right, lazy to post them in another fashion.