One day in the back yard, just for fun, I brought out some of my coveted 'cherry' themed favorites! I set a cute little table up with a cherry table cloth and topped it with a nice cherry glass and then I topped the entire tableau off with a cute cherry mug! The scene was screaming retro cuteness!
I saw a blur of motion and then suddenly a little sparrow came to land upon my cherry covered mug!
The sparrow looked at me and said "Hey Lady! Don't you think this is a bit over the top with the whole cherry themed extravaganza you have going on here?" I looked right at him and said "I don't remember inviting you to come and sit with me so I don't see how my cherry themed items would concern YOU!"
The sparrow looked at me again and said,"Listen lady! You have the words 'flea market lover' written all over your forehead." I stopped by because 'flea market' to me conjures up images of 'fleas' and I was hoping to eat some! After I finished eating all the fleas I anticipated are on your body, I thought I'd take a little dip in your cherry themed swimming pool here!"
What could I do? The sparrow had insulted me! I went back into the house and sat in the dark in the basement hoping the sparrow would fly away. When I came back outside later that day, there were all kinds of bird droppings in the bottom of my cute mug and my cherry glass was no where to be seen. I put the cherry mug in the dishwasher to be sterilized and I had to soak the filthy cherry table cloth in bleach! I gagged as I did it.
The next day I looked outside and there was that same sparrow, sitting on my deck railing yelling at me...he was shouting "Hey Lady! You got any blueberry themed items you want me and my friends to check out for you?"
Then he put his feathered wing over his beak and began laughing. I could hear him laughing even as he flew off into a neighbors yard.
My beloved retro cherries - tarnished by a total lack of respect from the sparrow community.
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