Thursday, March 13, 2008

It's good luck...

My mum is visiting at the moment. This is very fun. It means that I am drinking more tea than I ever thought possible, paying an enormous amount of attention to Clinton-Obama 2008 and getting gently chided about my missing buttons, messy hair and unpolished silverware. All of this is wonderful. It's been a year since anyone actually paid attention to all of that stuff, and it was quite overdue.
What this also means is that I have finally had a bunch of coats dry-cleaned.

I was wearing my newly spic-and-spanned coat today when a pigeon pooped all over me. My lovely clean coat is covered in crap. The effing bird also got my head. In the pinnacle of my nerd-existence, I had to stand in the middle of a busy square, cleaning the bird shit off my glasses. Ugh. There is nothing more geekily pitiful.

People wonder why I hate birds...

Oh, and if one more person chirps that it's "Good luck" to have a bird drop a load all over them, I will kick them in the head.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

bird bird bird
bird is the word

Ellen said...

It it's any consolation (actually, nothing can console a person who has bird shit in their hair), I was shat on not once, not twice, but THREE times by seagulls at Sauble Beach in the space of 20 minutes when I was 12 years old. First time, the shit hit my fries; the second time, my head, which prompted me to run screaminginto the lake to wash off; the third time on my legs as they stuck out my parents' car, where I decided to sulk for the rest of the afternoon. Did somebody say "three times lucky"????

smw said...

You might want to know more radical geeks than you feel the same way.