CHARACTER AND CHARACTERS

Revel in your city's quirks

While surfing the Web the other day, I came upon a thoughtful column by Otis White titled "Last Call in Margaritaville."

"Every city has problems," White wrote.

Including St. Petersburg.

"Its problem: It's running out of beach bums. Not the touristy kinds, who spend a week baking on the sand, but the real 365-day beach bums who devote a minimum amount of their time working and a maximum perching on bar stools."

I know a few of them.

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