Rattle wrote:

Right about the time I was going through my talking-to-myself, "I'm all alone and okay in the water" confidence routine, an inter-species communication problem occurred. The big grey finned creature that appeared a few feet away, surfacing as it swam in front of me was probably just saying, "Hello human, I am dolphin. You are in my waves, and I am curious about you. Long have we tried to befriend you by saving drowning swimmers and attacking sharks and being cute, and long have you repaid our kindness by catching us in fishing nets, capturing us for dumb circus shows and eating our dinners. But that is the past. Let this contact be the beginning of a new future. Let this morning mark the beginning of a great bond between our two peopl... hey, wtf where are you going?"

What I heard was, "I am the biggest fucking shark you've EVER seen."

That's funny as hell!

When I surfed back in high school, there were two times we had dolphins come up and swim in our vicinity. They are curious things. They never got closer than 10 feet to us, but they'd swim all around us..

If there had been more than one, or if I hadn't been alone, or if I'd seen it a bit further away instead of RIGHT NEXT TO ME, it might have been fun.

RE: An Interspecies Communication Problem OR Big Veiny Fin Chased Me Out the Water