I sat down at the bar, and then he spoke.

I found myself sitting next to a blind black man.

“What sort of animal are you?”
“Excuse me?”
“Well, seems you eat a lot of fruit and nuts so I’d say you’re some kind of bird. Me? I like to swim. I like to slide my belly along the bottom of the ocean, and then leap out of the water into the moonlight. I’m a seal. But you’d be a bird.”
“A Kookaburra perhaps?”
“Yeah. That’s right baby. A Kookaburra.”