Daddy?

Yes, son?

What's that?

That dead thing?

Yeah.

That used to be a fish.

Oh. ...What's this?

Don't touch it! Arrrgh. It's tar. Don't touch anything, okay?

Okay. Sorry.

Don't-- Bobby, don't go to the water. Stay right here.

But I wanna go in the--

I know, I know, you wanna go in the water. But you can't, okay? I brought you here to look at the ocean. Not to swim in it.

No fair. What are those?

Those black birds?

Yeah.

...Seagulls.

I thought seagulls were white.

Nope. Not anymore.

How come they don't fly?

They just don't, okay?

Can I go climb on the rocks?

No.

Why not??

Cause they've got crud all over 'em. It'll get all in your clothes and hair and then it'll get all over the car and we'll never get it out.

This is boring. I thought going to the beach was supposed to be fun.

Well, you were the one who wouldn't stop whining 'bout going to the beach so here we are okay?

But it's nothing like what you said it was like when you were a kid.

Well, that's... just the way it is now, alright?

It stinks here. It's giving me a headache. You said you loved the smell of the sea air.

I did. I'm... sorry.

Can we go now?

Yeah. Let's go.


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