As some of you may or may not know I am part of the elite choosen few who have been so lucky and become employed on Tybee. I currently clock in my nine to five on the 16th street of Tybee Beach(right next to the pier), where I rent umbrellas and chairs to ALL walks of life. I've met so many people working down there, some of which are incredible to know and I love my job, it's wonderful honestly but I'm going to have to be very honest, because google is not.
I decided for shits and gigs to just google search "Tybee" and this is one of the first images I stumbled upon
It's really a lovely site, this woman playing with seaguls...having a little fun in the sun, enchanting. It could even be a postcard. Lets get real I dont know where you sit on Tybee but this "enchanting phote" can not be found in a 3 street radius of Tybee Pier.
The Tybee I deal with every day is more like this...
It's almost like the Tybee pavilion is a blackhole of intelligence . The further you get from it, the greater your economical status and favoritism to sound moral choices become. I'm telling you I've seen some strange cats working on those streets. Majority of them are tourist but literally today at work I had some woman ask me if she was on Tybee Island or Tybee Beach? ....Come on. It's like someone called for a dipshit confrence at Tybee pavilion EVERYDAY. I watched a crowd of 30 plus people the other day gather around a horseshoe crab and call it a turtle for 40 minutes. and on top of uneducated tourist 87% of the people who sit in a 3 street radius of the Tybee pavilion either A. take steroids B. wear abercrombie and fitch C. have an absurd tatoo or D. reside in effingham county. I'm talkin some real meat heads. 16th street is very much guido central, but they're all redneck so it's a real strange thing. It's like snookie and larry the cable guy had a baby, and that baby was bubba sparxx. He would probably hang out on 16th street alot. I'm hoping MTV will make a Tybee Shore show really. and while I'm on my rant I'll have you know that almost weekly someone will ask me if there is a nude beach on tybee....my answer is always just "thank you god, no."
Now now I hope no one thinks I'm bashing Tybee. I take great pride in where I work honestly. I love tybee some of my favorite days and nights have been spent out there and I really do love my job but all I'm saying is Tybee is a unique place between your local Savannah people, your tourist, and your visiting effingham rednecks Tybee is an extremely eclectic little island.
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ReplyDeleteI hate Savannah, it's just a slum. However I do have slightly more respect for Tybee. The worse that has ever happened to me out there has been me getting parking tickets. Some people find it racist. Perhaps so but for me I have not run into any problems. It's been 30 years so I think I am alright in saying that.
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