Anyone ride one for fun?

With the summer small waves and seabreezes in full swing I struggle to find the energy to battle away on my shortboard.
Instead of dropping $6-800 on a high volume fish, Im thinking of maybe getting a foamy softboard fish just to muck around on while im at the beach with the misses and friends.
I get super bored just swimming, bodysurfing and lying on the beach and this could be a fun option to kill some time and also for the squeeze to have a crack on without any risk of injury to her or anyone nearby swimmers.

Any advice would be muchly thanked

Thanks mate, appreciate the feedback

I'm with Karlo, we had a soft board with plastic fins to get the kids started. Driving by Smiths one day the softy was in the car. I didn't have a wettie, or even boardies, but a nice little wave was coming through and pretty small crowd, so I grabbed the board, jumped in with the shorts I was wearing and had a great little session. They are super buoyant and easy to paddle, but limited in what you can do on them, but for a fun board, why not give it a go?