Kevin’s Meandering Thoughts | That Dang Chicken
Sea Gull Perch flickr picture by fran.trudeau shared underneath a Artistic Commons (BY-SA) license
My spouse and I, and a pal, spent the primary day of the lengthy weekend at Crane Seashore in japanese Massachusetts. It was a stunning day of principally sunshine, and the seaside is gorgeous — lengthy, white sand, and stuffed with trails traversing the dunes.
The issue? The seagulls. Discuss brazen.
At one level, once I was studying my novel and my spouse was resting, a seagull stealthily got here alongside and grabbed a small plastic bag of crackers and refused to drop it.
Thus started a slow-motion chase scene as my spouse tried to get the bag again — she didn’t care a lot concerning the crackers however she didn’t need the plastic bag to be a part of the surroundings. The chicken by no means flew. My spouse by no means ran. As a substitute, the gull saved hopping, with the bag in its beak, as my spouse calmly adopted it, typically clapping her arms and giving out the order to “drop it” prefer it was our canine.
Lastly, the chicken gave up, launched the bag and flew off.
I had seen a younger girl, a couple of blankets down, filming the entire encounter on her cellphone, and as my spouse returned, I informed her: You’re going to be trending on Tik-Tok or Instagram later at this time.
She laughed.
Peace (and the chase),
Kevin
