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First Encounter with a Lobster  e're riding in a car in a strange city looking for a drugstore. One of us forgot her toothbrush. It's an emergency. How long can you go without a toothbrush? By the road, standing and waving its big claws is a big lobster sweating—it's about 30 degrees celcius— and wishing it was still on the bottom of the ocean. The driver stops the car in a hurry— remember it's an emergency. We almost made history. Who has ever heard of a hit and run, the victim of which being a lobster. We're really glad we missed it. This lobster actually knows where the drugstore is. So gratefully we finally head toward our destination with dreams of lobsters. Unfortunately, the end of our next encounter should not be as happy ... for the lobster.
Treasure Hunt We also went for a walk along the beach, picking up nice colourful stones. We were pretty excited! I mean, here we were finding these really beautiful green, amber, white and blue gems. The blue ones were the rarest, so every time one of us discovered one the others were rather envious. Someone didn't even want to trade one blue for two white ones even though the white ones were almost as scarce—although not as much as the blue ones! Our hands were full; we were proud of ourselves. However, there was this nagging thought which was confirmed when we looked more closely at our precious stones: most of them were actually pieces of glass from broken bottles. This fact was validated that evening. We ate in a nice restaurant, and this restaurant was decorated with all kinds of objects—old dishes, candlesticks, cow bells. On some shelves there were several bottles, and they were the same colour as the pieces of glass we had found at the beach. |
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