And Peaceful Days Too

A pleasant weekend day, at least. Model trains, a walk on the pier. The ocean was very soothing, even with the excitement of a fisherman managing to hook a thresher shark. The crowd's behavior was interesting; everyone trying to catch everyone else's eye and say something about the event. Everyone followed the fisherman up and down the pier as he worked on getting the shark in.

We were enjoying the excitement when a girl about twelve years old came up to us and said to us "It's a long tail!" There was a family pause, where I know we were all thinking something like Long tail? She sounds like a character in a movie about the Stone Age. "Thresher shark," Rosie's dad and I both blurted out. "The thresher shark has a caudal fin as long as its body," Rosie observed. The girl blinked at us for a moment and turned away.

Naturally.

I'm sure if one of us had known the scientific name for the thresher shark, he or she would have blurted that out, too. Sigh.