Buzz·Posted on 23 Sept 201521 Things Growing Up In A British Seaside Town Teaches YouLet's hit the waves, beaches.by Ella Rose DoveBuzzFeed ContributorLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Seagulls are the enemy. View this photo on Instagram 2. The same people put the same deck chairs, in the same spots, every damn day. View this photo on Instagram 3. People always assume your home town looks like this: View this photo on Instagram 4. But in reality, it's more like this: View this photo on Instagram 5. Years of seeing them everywhere mean you're a sucker for a tacky souvenir. 6. You feel emotional whenever you walk down the grotty old high street. View this photo on Instagram 7. You don't understand why anyone would spend money renting a beach hut. View this photo on Instagram 8. You know the best place to have a picnic is your car. View this photo on Instagram 9. Even though you love the summer, the tourists that come with it are the worst. View this photo on Instagram 10. You own a special pair of these, and you don't care what that says about you. View this photo on Instagram 11. And you're very partial to your good, old pac-a-mac. View this photo on Instagram 12. Years of swimming whatever the weather mean you're now fully immune to even the coldest of seas. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Every foreign tourist will ask if you love jellied eels. View this photo on Instagram 14. In fact, sticks of rock, doughnuts, and those bizarre candy dummies are the main local speciality. View this photo on Instagram 15. As a teenager, if you wanted to go out, you had to do with a dad-dancing nightclub. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 16. But nothing cures a hangover quite like a greasy breakfast at the pier cafe. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 17. You're the most competitive person in the penny arcade. View this photo on Instagram 18. And you learned the hard way that sex on the beach isn't as fun as it sounds. View this photo on Instagram 19. You also know that bingo is still very much a thing. 20. And that just because a B'n'B advertises itself as having a "sea view", it doesn't actually mean it does. View this photo on Instagram 21. And finally, whenever you tell people where you live, they usually say something like, "Oh, yeah, my mum wants to retire there!" View this photo on Instagram