At this point in my life nothing really surprises me. Some dumb drunk gets tazed and killed downtown by the cops, I’m not surprised. Someone wins the lottery and then is broke 6 months later, I’m not surprised. However, today I was genuinely surprised about something. I was just about done with my cleaning when Max told me he wanted to tell me a story, so I hopped on iChat so he could video chat with me rather than typing (he’s lazy like that) and mid conversation I see a bird take flight and land on top of my Dunhill display.
I could not believe my eyes, in fact I think my exact sentiments to Max were “Jesus fucking christ dude, a bird just flew past me — a BIG bird!” and he looked at me like I was half crazy. I sat there and watched it for a moment and then crept over and took a quick photo with my Blackberry and once again it took flight. I heard a large “THUD” apparently it tried to fly through the door. I told Max I was going to check on it and at that moment it turned the corner as if a course was set to rendezvous with me. I’m yelling to Max that it’s coming toward me and I snap another photo. It walks past me, under the counter and seeing as it’s a dirty flying rat — it stopped at the Gurkha display as if to make a selection before departing.
I walked about 3 inches from it and took one last photo, I then proceeded to walk past it half expecting it to freak out and try to fly. No, rather it politely moved out of my way and I opened the back door. I told it to “shoo” and pushed at it with my foot, it walked quietly out the back door and then stopped for me to let it out the second door. I stepped over it and it walked between my legs and out the door.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!
I went back in to do a damage report because seeing as it was a pigeon and a large one at that, I assumed it shit all over the place. Nope, not a single dump anywhere but feathers were ALL over the place. It took me several sweeps to get them all. The crazy thing is that it was in here all night and did not trip the alarm and motion sensors, it must have been snoozing or something. I remain surprised, Knickerbockers Cigars is a strange place on a daily basis, but this was REALLY strange. You can’t make this stuff up, folks.
No matter what life throws at you, it can always get stranger.
That was a hell of a odd video chat session random birds showing up lol!