"Don Webb - Beach Scene" - читать интересную книгу автора (Webb Don)

something when they're supposed to come down and that puts a stop
to it.

BOB: He don't like small towns.

BILL: Well he can always take the ferry across to Galveston. He don't
have to stay the whole weekend. He could run around in Houston.

BOB: Sharon always does the driving. I think something's not right with
him.

BILL: Well he's better than the first one.

BOB: I never met the first one.

(Pause)

BILL: Damn gulls don't seem to have any trouble catching fish.

BOB: They spent millions of years evolving into a perfect fish-catching
shape.

BILL: Don't tell me you buy that evolution con.

BOB: Yep. The world's been around for billions of years
aiming for just this moment. You and me retired and fishing.
(Pause)

BILL: Did you see the meteor last night?

BOB: No.

BILL: Big and green. I think it struck the ocean. There was thunder
afterward.

(Short pause)

BOB: Maybe that's why the fishing's off.

BILL: No. It think it's oil prices.

BOB: Oil?

BILL: Yeah. Since oil is down they're not working the rigs. When the rigs
went in fishing got better.

BOB: That's because the rigs are platforms for barnacles and so forth.
The barnacles aren't out of work.

(Pause)