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I was walking by the sea the other day and saw a man drowning. "You need help," I said helpfully. Mercifully, even!

• zabzonk 2y ago
  perhaps he was just waving
  • balamatom 2y ago
    Might be. That'd certainly explain the ambulance I saw there on my way back, the dripping wet shape on the stretcher, covered with some sort of tarp (which I thought I recognized as torn from a nearby beach bar that'd been closed for the winter, emergency services over here being underfunded as they are.) But idk, they might've been picking up a beached dolphin or something. (With an ambulance?!)
    • zabzonk 2y ago
      Sorry, I didn't mean to belittle your experience, or the guy's demise. I was making a bit of a heartless pun of sorts on Stevie Smith's poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-...