Who has n’t been intoxicated at midnight and curious about seahorses ?
We ’ve all been there at some stop . You ’re out for a night on the town , enjoying yourself , having possibly one too many adult beverages … and then the text message begin to menstruate .
For most masses , those text involve some regrettable thoughts sent to X or people we have a compaction on . Sometimes , it ’s someone who wrong us at study that day . But for one sputter soulfulness in Charleston , S.C. , those texts involved seahorses .
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Between the hours of 10 p.m. and midnight sometime last month , the unknown military man find out himself more and more curious about the aquatic world all around him and know just what he had to do : Text theSouth Carolina Aquarium ’s " Ask an Aquarium educator " number and pour out his nerve .
" I ’m at the corner of Market and Meeting , " thefirst schoolbook start , giving the pedagogue his location . " What would I have seen around me 10,000 eld before the area was settled by humans ? "
But his wholesome inquiry do n’t stop there . Over the course of six texts , the man asks about any aquatic flora and zoology that are unique to his expanse ; which current field of aquatic cogitation might be causing dissonance among expert ; why he ’s only supposed to eat oyster in months with an ' r ' in them , " and " Why do walrus grab everything they can with their prehensile tail end ? "
Unlike exes ignoring or blocking our late - night textual matter , the South Carolina Aquarium live to educate . So Drunk Guy did indeedfindthe answers he seek , including a couple matter of scientific debate ( " the purpose of keeled scales on snake " ) ; the guidelines for eating oysters ( it in the main has to do with bacteria emergence cycles ) ; and , of track , seahorse bottom ( they are n’t great swimmer and do n’t desire to get tossed around with the currents ) . Not only that , but the serious phratry at the aquarium posted the whole telephone exchange to theirTwitter account .
At noon the next solar day , Drunk Guy ( presumptively Sober Guy by then ) thanked the aquarium for their answers and said , " My wife should be glad I drunk - textbook marine museum and not other charwoman . "
The aquarium , naturally , called her a " turtle - y lucky lady"—a pan of dad - like levels , but we ’ll forgive under the circumstances .
