Mildly Disappointing

I found a whale today. In California it's not that uncommon to find whales here and there. Ocasionally one even sees one alive. The one that I found was, like so many, quite dead. After flagging off the area where I found it, I called up my supervisor who rushed out from Pasadena to see it. Her first reaction to the fossil was the same "how the hell did you see that? Good eye!" that everyone gives me when I find most of my fossils, but then she continued with "it's a real piece of shit." I'd mentioned to her on the phone that it was in bad shape and only a rib and some unidentafiable stuff (even large unidentifieable things) were exposed. We deemed the specimen unsalvageable, took some pictures, took down the flagging tape and let a scraper plow through it. It was a piece of shit, but it whas the first large mammal, first anything besides a crustacean and a few fish since starting this job. "Sorry" I said to my supervisor; "thanks for not running me over" I said to the site foreman, "I'll find something better next time".