Please Don't Take My Coke Can

Can ponders fate: recycled or immortalized?

I'm waiting for my son in a beer garden in Clonmel, Ireland. There's nothing to do, so I pick up a Coke can from the ground and get busy drawing it. But halfway through, when I look up from my sketchbook, it's gone.  

There's my can, heading off on the tray of a waitress. I jump up in pursuit. "Can I have that back?" 

"What back?" she says. 

"The can—could I have it back? I need it." 

"Tis empty." She looks at me like I'm daft, but she extends the arm, shakes the can and drops it in my cupped hands.

I return to the table and get back to work. Let's see...slopes...measurements...shading. I glance back to the can.

Oh, no. It's gone again, this time heading into the kitchen on the tray of a busboy. I follow him and ask for it back. He didn't know, he was just doing his job. 

Now I hunch over the can, glancing defensively from side to side. All the servers are looking at me like I'm the man from Mars.

This happens four times. And I just wanted to let you know how I persevered to bring you this little study. 

Sometimes still lives don't stay still.

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