I'm sorry, Chuck, but that story almost made me spit my coffee on my
monitor. :-D Your sound effects...I could hear it and picture it all. I know
it wasn't funny...but the way you told it...had me laughing out loud!
Candace
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt"
> Your story reminds me of a traumatic day about 1960. I was in high
> school and working in a pet shop in late afternoons and Saturdays. One
> of my jobs was to clean the bird cages one of which included about a
> dozen juvenile parakeets (budgies, I think, to you Oz guys). I had done
> it many, many times before. When the clean-out tray was removed from
> the bottom of the cage there was actually enough clearance that these
> birds could fit through. However, escape never seemed to be an issue.
> They were all so skittish that they would cower in the back of the cage
> and crawl all over each other trying to get even farther away.
>
> On day one of them became brave enough to make a break for freedom.
> Within seconds the others spotted their chance as well and suddenly
> there were a dozen little parakeets making a bee-line for the front of
> the store and the freedom represented by all that open air fifty feet
> away. Unfortunately, that open air was a huge picture window and in a
> matter of a few more seconds there came the sounds; thump, thunk, bang,
> bang, thump, whack, bang, kapow, whap, whap, bang, kathunk!
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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