I Survived Spring Break: Tales from a Miami Beach Store Owner

It was like the calm before a Miami storm. One day I'm happily slaving away in my small souvenir store, just a few blocks off South Beach, folding the umpteenth T-shirt and putting the disorganized sunglasses back into their carousel, and the next day I'm pondering running away, moving out of Miami to some quaint, nondescript nobody-ever-goes-to town.