>lol, who actually thinks to follow around ducks and make a story out of it?<
Well, that would almost literally describe Robert McCloskey, author of the famed children's book "Make Way for Ducklings"...
Who has a bronze statue of the story dedicated to him in the Boston Common Garden...
http://nanosft.com/freedom/common/duck1.shtmlhttp://nanosft.com/freedom/common/duck2.shtml"Check and mate", mate.

-Steve