About a month ago I went out on my porch to smoke a cigarette and was immediately greeted by a parrot on my roof chirping away and trying to talk. But it wouldn't let me approach it and so I spent a good two hours coming up with devious plans to get the thing down. It was beautiful and it sang/tried to talk. I had to have it. I ran through several neighbors' yards, tried to coax the parrot (soon to be named Freddy) down with bread and crackers, and my last ditch attempt was to spray the thing with a water hose so that it could be caught and not fly off. I felt really guilty but it flew out of range before it got wet anyways. So I walked around like a crazy person with binoculars following the bird all over the neighborhood. I can't imagine what people thought looking out their windows, I doubt they would have believed I was actually "bird watching". Eventually morning became afternoon and Freddy flew off never to be heard from again. 
So now I'm looking around on Craigslist's Lost & Found and there's a lady looking for this same parrot. There's no way there are more than one of these exotic looking things in my area. The pictures look exactly like it, its stats match and so do its colors. "Her baby" went missing in October and "Bert" hasn't been seen since. If this was you would you bother calling her knowing that there really wasn't much you could do except let her know her parrot was alive at least a month ago and that he flew north but God knows where he is by now?
I should have turned the hose on full blast when I had the chance.
	
		
			
		
		
	
				
			So now I'm looking around on Craigslist's Lost & Found and there's a lady looking for this same parrot. There's no way there are more than one of these exotic looking things in my area. The pictures look exactly like it, its stats match and so do its colors. "Her baby" went missing in October and "Bert" hasn't been seen since. If this was you would you bother calling her knowing that there really wasn't much you could do except let her know her parrot was alive at least a month ago and that he flew north but God knows where he is by now?
I should have turned the hose on full blast when I had the chance.


						