There is a story I like to tell from my own experience growing up in Oregon called the “crabs in a box” story. One of our weekend activities would be to go to the Oregon coastline and go crabbing for Dungeness crabs.
There are specially designed crab traps that you bait and throw into the ocean from the docks. The traps lure the crabs through a funnel-like opening that lets them in but doesn’t let them out. Meanwhile, you just wait on the dock, usually drinking coffee to keep warm against the cold Oregon rain. After a while, you pull up Read the rest of this entry »
