Weekly Short-Short: The Sausage Constellation Meteor Shower

I have been working at a sausage manufacturer for 30 years.
It is no exaggeration to say that I have poured everything into the development of sausages.

However, my work is rarely understood correctly.

Whether at the supermarket, an izakaya, or a barbecue,
people lump everything together as "wieners."
Even though wieners are just a tiny part of the vast world of sausages.

My daughter was the same.
She would be delighted, saying, "It's an octopus wiener!" but
the correct term is "an octopus wiener made from a wiener sausage within the sausage category."
I explained it carefully, but
my wife coldly said, "Doesn't that kind of thing not matter at all?"

Tonight is the night of the first meteor shower in 10 years.
I watched the last meteor shower with my wife and daughter as a family of three.
"I hope the true world of sausages is at least conveyed to my family."
I quietly prayed to the meteor shower.
The two of them left the house the following year.

This year's meteor shower is being reported under the nickname "Sausage Constellation Meteor Shower."
It seems it's because the yellowish band of light "looks like a sausage."
I thought it was a very sloppy naming choice.

To watch the meteor shower all by myself,
I brought a chair out to the balcony and opened a canned beer.
My snack was a carefully selected wiener sausage that had received JAS certification.
When I put the first one in my mouth and bit into it, it made the crisp snapping sound I had aimed for.

At that moment, a streak of light raced across the sky.

Before long, the light increased and became an unusually thick band of light.
Its appearance was not that of a wiener sausage.

No matter how I looked at it, it was a frankfurter.

I have participated in the following project again this week.