Menaced by Mallards

[akirlu]

Ah, yes, that was what I don't like about poppy seed bagels: the stupid poppy seeds spalling off in great profusion and getting into absolutely everything on my desk. Also, word to the wise: if you forget to get plastic cutlery, and wind up spreading the cream cheese with your pocket knife, the cream cheese tends to wind up in the notch at the top of the blade and refuse to come out again. Ick.

On the whole, I would prefer Noah's, but it's really too far to walk down the hill to U Village and back in a coffee break. So I went along to the HUB in a slow fall of cherry blossoms. The pale pink drifts line the brick walks now. As I was about to pass down the stairs between Smith and Miller Halls, I heard a nearby quacking, but only saw a seagull. That's odd; one doesn't usually find ducks up on the main campus, let alone quacking seagulls. Then down by the Union Building more quacking as a handsome mallard drake sailed in for a landing between the redwoods on the hillock there. Very odd. There really isn't any water anywhere very near the HUB. Back on the quad, with my hot chocolate and bagel in hand, I spotted the probable source of the first quacking - a mallard duck sitting solo under a cherry tree. I can't help thinking the two of them belong together and somehow got separated. I hope they find each other again. It's cherry blossom time; everyone should be pairing up in happy couples (or happy multiples of whatever floats your boat).

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

We used to have a pair of ducks that hung outside the cafeteria building at work. They'd just sit on the cement outside the front door.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Spotted a source of bread crusts, no doubt. Did they do any busking for snacks?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

What annoys me about poppy seeds is that they would cause the consumer to fail a drug test. Yes, we live in a police state, did you wonder?

Noah's, not actually being a bagel (it's bread in the shape of a bagel, not the same thing at all) doesn't fill the bagel-hunger for me. I like Noah's split and toasted, though: that's what I do with bread.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm a recovering Libertarian, you don't need to tell me about the police state of things.

I'm less fastidious than you about what meets my criteria for bagels; Noah's boils their bagels, and while they are not hard enough on the outside, they are vastly more bagel-like than what can be bought at the HUB.

[joyful-storm.livejournal.com]

I saw a matched pair of ducks in Red Square yesterday evening, so (if there do not happen to be multiple duck couples wandering the campus) they did meet up just fine.