make way for ducklings

[trope]

Tonight at 7:45 pm at the corner of North Ave and Wells St, three men stopped car traffic in all directions to let two Canadian geese and a dozen goslings cross the street. All the nightclubbers and the commuters stopped, in various states of patience, as the clan waddled somewhat diagonally across the crosswalk, eastbound towards the lake. One of the motorists honked. One of the geese honked. And then the light turned red and everyone sat through another turn at the intersection as the geese and their guardian angels waddled away.