Actual sickness prevention

My sister and I moved to Newport Beach with Mom when I was 18. I made friends with some neighbor kids right away. Surfing was the thing. The waves were usually too small to have a really good time. So when somebody said, “Surf's up!” you went there like it was the first ripe tomato.

One of those times came after a big rainstorm. A big enough rainstorm overloads the sewer system and the extra goes into the river and out to sea. It's not a private hog farm though, so it just turns the water brown and poisonous and nobody takes responsibility.