O.T.!!! Parker, nice post. About a year ago, my ladyfriend and I went to the Monterey Bay Hotel in Cal...We had a great corner view with an almost nothing pattio, (bout three feet wide and 8 feet long. I went out the the patio for coffee and newspaper on Sat. morning and this Seagull came and sat right next to me! About two feet away! He remained and sat there for at least thirty minutes! (He and I had a great conversation and my lady friend just sat there witnessing the entire thing with hear mouth dropped wide open and laughing!

I did not really want to see him go away as we had obviously bonded. Moral of the story is, some ``seagulls`` you want to go away and others you don`t! ``Stuff`` Happens!

(Bye the way, we have since had many ``seagulls`` and have lived happily ever after!)

T.K.