Got An Urgin’ For Some Urchin

October 29 2009, 7:00am

(Aquarium | Seattle, WA, USA)(At the aquarium where I volunteer, a guest sticks her whole hand in our touch tank, rips off a sea urchin and proceeds to stuff it in her bag.) Me: “Excuse me, ma’am, but you can’t do that.” Guest: “What do you mean?” Me: “You can’t rip the urchin off the tank’s wall. Could you please hand me it?” Guest: “But I was going to take it home and eat it. Isn’t that okay?”