The OC

So I read the television show The OC has been canceled. I never watched the show, but living in the real OC, I watched the whole Orange County phenomenon with interest. When I used to tell people where I lived, I would get a blank stare, then I would explain that it was south of Los Angeles, but north of San Diego, and then their eyes sort of glazed over. Now, everyone knows exactly where Orange County is, and what we are all about.

We always drive through Laguna Beach on the way to my parent's house for holidays. One year, it was absolutely impossible to get through the traffic, then we remembered the television show, "Laguna Beach" had just come out. The sad thing is, the tourists in Laguna Beach are the ones that always think it's okay to just cross the street whenever they want to. They just pop out in front of your car, on the Pacific Coast Highway. The city of Laguna Beach actually installed musical, flashing light crosswalks, to stop the jaded locals from running down the tourists and their valuable tourism dollars.

We found a short cut through the hills, to avoid the holiday traffic, but sometimes when we have enough time, we still choose to drive through Laguna and watch the tourists risking their lives, dodging cars to get to the beach.