Beach Lunch

It comes as a surprise frequently when people learn I enjoy working nights, and when I tell them I get more time off and get to spend more time with my wife they generally look at me as though I were crazy. Night dispatching for the police department is more interesting and generates more actual police work (in my opinion) than a lot of the communications work during the day as administrators are all asleep when I'm answering phones. My wife concurs with this view of my work, saying we get more time together when I'm not getting up before dawn and going to sleep straight after dinner. Because my wife's a teacher and works during the day we have to pick and choose where our paths will cross. Thursday afternoon it was over a plate of white wine mussels at Salute on the beach. It was a lovely afternoon, not too hot (85 degrees) with a fresh southeasterly breeze to blow away any hint of humidity.That I was heading in to work could be construed as a damper but it just made the moments shared at the table all the more precious. There is a lot written about how to spend an afternoon in Key West, but a shared plate at Salute, sitting out on the porch rates quite high in my book. And I get to do it when I want because I work nights.