In general, when people pack a bag for the beach, they'll toss in a bottle of sunscreen, some water, their cell phone, and maybe a nice shovel and pail.

But Minnie Driver brought along a different type of toy during a recent stop at the shore. A sex toy, that is.

The ringlet-maned mom-to-be cheerfully wielded a flesh-colored dildo and offered no explanation for her handling of the floppy phony baloney as she whipped it out and showed it off to a giggling friend, though we at Skin Central are not ones to complain about a gorgeous actress handing a phallus in pub(l)ic!

When it comes to building sand castles, a plastic shovel is your best bet. When it comes to building pants castles, sexy Minner Driver and her plastic tool are the things we dig.

But not as much as we dig Minnie Driver nude in Mrs. Wroe's Virgins! Now that'll pop your cherry.