Tuesday, September 04, 2007

The Truth about Jellyfish

A perfect beach day, hot and cloudless, the water warm and smooth like a baby bottom. The kind of day when the only thing that can ruin an endless silly ball game in the water is seeing a jellyfish nearby. Then another one. And a couple more. Then starting to imagine them crawling all over your body, especially the parts covered by your bathing suit, and burning your feet pitilessly (funny thing, they never actually do any harm). So when she first joins you in the water and asks, “Are there any jellyfish today,” what is a best friend to do but look her straight in the face and lie, “No, not at all.”

3 Comments:

At Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:53:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

that's why we eat them.

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At Friday, September 21, 2007 6:48:00 PM, Blogger JMH said...

There are few things more horrifying than the idea of poisonous tentacles.

 
At Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:05:00 PM, Blogger Dora said...

As a principle, I generally do not eat things I would not want to touch, poisonous tentacles included.

 

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