A Dumb Bird
posted in Frenzied Daddy |
This would be a good post to spin into a story. But these are primarily the interesting factoids.
I was coming home from taking miss B over to a friend’s house and there was this … bird in the road. As I went around it, I caught a glimpse of it and realized; this was no ordinary bird. And oddly, it was sitting in the road, feet from traffic, not moving. There was a break in the blackberry bushes a little ahead, I pulled over and walked back to it.
As I walked back to it, I could see a couple of guys on the other side of this five-lane section of Columbia Boulevard. (This is approximately where we were) They were standing on the hill by the road, staring at this bird. Chicken? I’ll call it a chicken. I don’t really know what kind of bird it is. It occurred to me that they might not be idle strangers and I called to them; “Hey, is this your bird?” (nod). “Is it vicious?” (nod) Will it bite me? (nod).
I’m not sure they understood me, but I could envision myself on America’s Funniest Videos. It wasn’t a pretty vision. It occurred to me that it was probably hurt. I mean it was just sitting there with traffic on one side and me on the other. Then I saw its little foot behind it; yeah definitely probably hurt. I walked up to it and it made a funny growly noise so I shouted “well, get out of the road” and waved my arms. It hopped up to one foot and flapped its wings and moved over about half a lane. The oncoming car swerved and missed us. I finally shooed it to the center lane by waving and hollering and hopping. The chicken was hobbling pretty well by the time it got there, favoring its drumstick.
The oncoming cars slowed down, and an oil delivery truck (don’t know what company it was, guy, but thanks for stopping) actually stopped quite a ways back. I got it shooed over to the grassy hill and the guys grabbed it and put it inside a fence. There was probably a trick to grabbing it because he was holding on behind the wings and held it at arms length pointed away from his face.
