Well, at least two days of it.

Ace and I are back from Ocean City, and we can report that the town is deluged this week, as it is the same time every summer, with freshly graduated high school seniors, some of whom I'm sure are behaving quite responsibly and mannerly.

We, unfortunately, tended to only run into the rest of them -- those loud, expletive-spouting, engine-revving, beer-swilling teens who think they are invulnerable and seem intent on proving it.

I wrote about the "junebug" phenomenon last year -- during my summer-long assignment to the beach -- and part of that story got into how Ocean City motels once declined to accept celebrating high school graduates (kind of like many of them decline to accept families with dogs). Eventually business owners realized snubbing the seniors was economic suicide. 

Virtually all motels now rent to seniors, but there's still not that many allowing dogs, which is a bit of a double standard when you consider the similarities between the two groups.

Both are prone to urinating in public, fixated on "hooking up" and tend to travel in noisy and boisterous packs; both are capable of inflicting great damage on a motel room, making big messes on the carpet, getting into fights and barking and yelping all night long.

All of which gives me an idea -- and, no, it's not to require leashes on high school seniors. That would be wrong.

But why not a dog week, Ocean City? Maybe it could be the week before senior week, and all the motels would welcome dogs, and maybe a restaurant or two, as well, and maybe they'd be allowed on the boardwalk and beach, even. (Town rules prohibit dogs on the beach from May to September)

The town could even hold special safe and wholesome doggie functions for us to attend like it does with the seniors.

As it is now, it's difficult finding dog-friendly accommodations (we stayed at the Barefoot Mailman, which welcomes pets), and a dog visiting Ocean City, unless he knows how to play miniature golf, isn't going to have huge fun. (There are spots along Delaware's coast that do allow dogs, and that will be the topic of a future post).

Speaking of crazy ideas, we stopped by Ocean Gallery, where owner Joe Kro-Art, the king of crazy ideas, is trying to talk the city into a massive work of oceanfront public art he calls "Boathenge."

Inspired by Stonehenge, and Nebraska's whimsical tourist attraction, "Carhenge," Kro-Art wants to plant a line of boats in the sand on the beach at Ocean City.

Knowing him, the idea is not going to go away, so I didn't bother to suggest what I thought might be a better concept: "Seniorhenge."

No, that would be wrong.