Where is the sea lion?

The New York Times Metropolitan Diary:


Dear Diary:

METROPOLITAN DIARY

Reader Tales From the City

I’m sitting at the information desk one afternoon at the American Museum of Natural History. A woman, with a heavy accent, approaches to ask a question.

“Where’s the sea lion?” she asks.

“In the Hall of Ocean Life,” I respond.

She gives me a perplexed look, then tries again.

“Where’s the sea lion?”

I try to give her a little more help. “In the Hall of Ocean Life. Go to the lower level of the Hall, turn left, and you will see two sea lions behind a pane of glass.”

Still perplexed, and now impatient, she tries one more time:

“No. Choo-choo. The C line.”