Do you know where your crab is?

This beauty of a sign caught my eye while on a walk in Seattle's "Tangletown" neighborhood (otherwise known as just southwest of Greenlake) recently. I just had to share it.

What I love about this sign is its absolute dedication to its purpose. There's no mistaking what's going on here (unlike the "drug-gun" sign I wrote about recently). The pictured crab is, in no uncertain terms, lost! The little details in the sig, like the crab's name—Oliver, of course; what else would you name a crab?—and the "10$" reward just scream of a child's sincerity. I can just imagine a distraught six- or seven-year-old standing next to her parent at the computer writing up this sign, which would soon be plastered over nearly every telephone pole in the area.

So I spent a couple minutes calling out "Oliver" through cupped hands and gently pushing over rocks, but Oliver wasn't anywhere to be found. Then it hit me... maybe Oliver wasn't missing after all? Perhaps that same parent dutifully creating the poster was swallowing their guilt just as they'd swallowed mouthfuls of luscious garlic butter-coated morsels of poor Oliver, boiled and cracked open just a few hours after little Sally finished playing with him. Oh, that was morbid. Sorry.

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