World Enough and Time

I was walking home today along Col. By Drive, and I'd just passed the corner of Concord and Echo, when a fish fell out of the sky and landed in the road beside me with such a loud WHAP that it made me jump.

I looked around, but there were no cars anyone could have thrown it from. None of the condos were close enough to the street for anyone to have thrown it from a window. And it had come straight down from above - with nothing above me except sky.

Before I could start considering strange Fortean phenomena, a gull started to squawk hysterically above me and I realized what must had happened. This gull must have been lucky enough to nab a fish from the canal for supper. Flying off in triumph, it accidentally dropped it, splat, onto the street beside me.

Don't you hate it when that happens?

Worse for the dead fish than the hungry bird, I guess.