Once you get something into your head
I was once swimming in the sea on holiday; not very far out and my feet could still touch the floor. I noticed something moving from the corner of my eye, and when I turned my head to look I saw a narrow black object cutting through the water and coming towards me. I have never moved so fast in all my life, and was greatly relieved to get safely to the beach. As I looked back towards the sea there was no longer any sign of whatever I saw, and no one else seemed to have seen it at all. I was sure it had been a shark.I knew there weren’t supposed to be sharks in these waters, but that didn’t prevent me from thinking that I had almost had a close encounter with one. I did some research later which confirmed that there had never been sharks spotted in the area, and certainly never an attack by one. In the end I had to concede to myself that I had probably been mistaken, and that what I had seen -or thought I had seen- was no more than a clump of seaweed or a piece of driftwood. Even so, whenever I return to Skegness, I cannot bring myself to go back into the sea.
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