That special "V.I.P." respect/honoring that you receive while strolling the beach with handfuls of tasty edibles, and have "accumulated" a whole undulating "ground-cover" of nibblets-seeking seagulls padding along behind you, watching for you to toss a morsel in their direction.
I always love getting the white-carpet treatment when I visit the seashore; I especially get a kick out of how each of the individual seagulls actually seems to be able to "distinguish" your gaze --- i.e., apparently each bird can actually discern if you are looking directly at him to indicate that he's been "chosen" to be fed next --- and so even a gull from the middle or back of the "carpet" of feather-brains will obligingly stretch out his beak and "open up wide", even before you toss the tidbit to him.
by QuacksO January 25, 2019