“The mix of salty air and fried food offers a waft of possibility, like we’re at a theme park of nature’s making.” — Ali Francis (apwfrancis)
of a colony of gulls circling hungrily above our mauled dinner. In what world, my dudes?
In this childlike reverie nobody cares who was supposed to do the dishes last night. Or who racked up the international phone bill. Or who is responsible for the rogue grains of sand that are now grinding between all of our molars. We reach for benevolent explanations to make sense of one another. We aren’t wounded or agitated. There are plenty of reasons for any earlier tantrums. Maybe mum didn’t sleep well. Dad’s allergies are playing up. My brother is stressed at work.
Away from the decency of knives and forks, this break in normalcy, this ritualistic mess, is what levels us. In our very serious world, eating fish and chips on the beach erodes everything that holds it together. It throws out all rules of adulthood, its anxieties, its niceties; what’s left is just the unspoken grace to make a screaming mess of everything. To claw, to spill, to build sandcastles mid-meal.
Soon, it’s over. The sun has almost dipped beneath the green mountains lining the coastline behind us. Just a few of the soggy chips are left; I’m the only one who loves those. Suddenly, dad is scrunching the paper into a ball. My brother is draining the last of his cheap beer. Mum is rubbing her hands on a wet wipe. We walk towards the car, splashing our sandy feet under a rusty tap and sliding back into our shoes. My heart sinks, but we’ll be back.
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