The Sandwich Duel

Bartholomew "Barry" Buttercup was a creature of fierce habit, and his Tuesday

routine involved sitting on the park’s third bench and consuming a triple-layered, artisan turkey sandwich.

He considered it a monument to lunchtime engineering. Today, that monument was

under threat. A particularly plump pigeon, whom Barry had mentally nicknamed "Featherface,"

waddled dangerously close, its beady eye fixed on the pesto sauce. Barry decided on

a defensive maneuver. He didn't want violence, just deterrence. He slowly raised the colossal sandwich—a

gesture he intended as a silent warning of ownership. However, to the jogger passing

by, Mrs. Eleanor Higgins, it looked precisely like Barry was aggressively challenging the