Fellow reporter Mike Rothman, the other half of Hometown Downtown. He's overdressed while writing a story from the beach on a 100-degree day.

I received a call from Rothman that we’d been invited to a charity fundraiser for Microgiving.com at a beachfront mansion in Manalapan. So I donned my best board shorts, a new white T-shirt and slipped into my Reef sandals. Then Rothman rang.
“Hey, the event's on Saturday and wear your best threads… There’s going to some big dogs there,” Rothman said.
I wore a nice, white long sleeve shirt and charcoal polyester pants and dress shoes. Thanks Rothman! Way out of place…Why did I listen to him?
So we met in a supermarket shopping center parking lot on the second hottest day of 2009. We waited on blacktop for a van to pick us up for the shindig at the mansion. We were driven down a few windy beach roads and arrived at the mansion. Rothman dropped our names on the list to no avail. The women were dressed in nothing but bathing suits and the men were in board shorts. Boy, we stuck out like swollen sore thumbs.
We were nicknamed the “sweat hogs” by partygoers who used us at the expense of their laughs. But, it was worth it. The party featured a gorgeous mansion poolside bar, with stairs down to the beach with a stage, another tented bar and the most amount of beach activities taking place this side of Cancun.
Money was being raised everywhere for Microgiving, an online social community that facilitates the giving of micro-donations online empowering anyone to give spare pocket change to help people or organizations.

Read more about this story in the July 1 issue of the Delray Forum.