Monday, 5 June 2017

Relying too much on eyesight

I recently learned that eyesight is not everything.  It can lead to some surprises.  I just lived a story that is the perfect example.

I was having lunch at a public space.  I was facing the windows.  On the other side of the windows, there was a small parking lot.  Just in front of me, there was a parking space.  Right there, there were birds, those of the annoying kind that can be seen everywhere.  They are called seagull.  

Well, I live near a big river, in a big city that is on an island and seagull are very common birds.  So, there was a few birds there.  They were not happy with each other.  They fight for something on the ground.  I look to determine what it is.  To my disguss, I believed it was a carcass of another bird.  It was what it seems from here I was.  «Well» i though «I have seen it all!  Those birds are canibalists.  Well, no wonder they can survive in the city,»

At the end, I got out of the place.  I thought it would be a good thing to prouve my point.  The birds were gone at this point.  I understood why: it was a grey bag!  They didn't fight for a carcass, they fought for the content of a plastic grey bag!  For sure, at that moment, I felt like a fool.  It also explained no ones reacting to the scene.

The moral of the story: It is time to go and get my eyes checked.  Another way to see it: I may had been in the perfect spot to view the scene, my eyes weren't seen everything they should have been.

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