Once upon a time, as a young college student
walked to and from classes at UConn,
she looked down and spotted a fish.
Well, no, it wasn't exactly a fish.
It was a squashed beer can top,
but it looked exactly like a fish!
Fascinated, she picked up the fish and put it in her pocket.
When she saw a friend that lived in the next dorm over,
she turned it so it looked just like a fish and asked,
"What do you see?"
"A smooshed beer can top!" he responded.
"Doesn't it look like a fish?" the young woman asked.
"It looks like a smooshed beer can top!" he insisted.
So much for that.
The young woman asked another friend or two,
who provided similar responses.
What, was she the only creative thinker here?
Maybe she was just nuts.
Soon she would be seeing her boyfriend.
If he didn't see it, perhaps she was being silly.
She pulled out the smooshed beer can top,
set exactly so that it looked like a fish, and asked,
"What does this look like to you?"
"A fish!" he exclaimed, without hesitation.
The young man got points that day.
This is not to say that correctly identifying a fish
was the reason the young woman eventually married him,
but the event stuck with her.
He identified the fish.
The young woman kept the fish in her jewelry box forever.
