#281 - IT'S FRICKIN' BIRDS!!

it's almost like this... except the one i hear comes in two parts, with a frickingly annoying lady laugh in between:

dude, i figured it out... it's birds. those maddeningly annoying shreiks and moronic laughs i've been hearing on a frustratingly daily basis are coming from parrots! i knew it couldn't have been humans, at least, i was reasonably sure it wasn't humans because 1) it was so consistently horrid and 2) if it were humans then i'd have to be even MORE pissed at the rudeness of whoever was screaming constantly for hours so loud that even my neighbors five buildings over could hear it.

but i got a clue about it this summer, i began noticing that the screams were occurring pretty regularly between 7:30-8:30 in the morning, right around noontime, and between 5:00-6:30 at night, but never once it got dark. then, as i was spying around in my yard one day i saw a bird cage in the garage of a neighbor and i thought for sure it had to be coming from there. but i got no confirmation, each time i'd hear the hideousness i'd go out to see if i could see some brat kid or some other rude-o out there, but i saw nothing.

finally, tonight, at 8:00 pm i heard it, i went outside and saw that same house with the garage light on, i saw not one, but TWO big bird cages and at least one parrot... the culprit... the damn bastard. they kept the garage light on tonight so the parrot didn't go to sleep (y'know how all you need to do is cover their cage with a towel to make it dark and they go right to sleep) and it was yelling and "laughing" well into the night. lemme tell you it's a damn good thing i don't live in makaha or wherever that condo was because i'd be calling up that peacock lady right about now...

so on one hand, it's a good thing that it's a parrot because then i'm not so mad as if someone was actually yelling (because that's so RUDE! and now i know i'm not the only one that hears it so that's even more inconsiderate!), i mean if it's an animal at least it's somewhat non-controllable... on the OTHER hand, it IS inconsiderate of the parrot's owners to keep those damn things in their garage throwing out their damn banshee calls out across the whole townhouse complex. they could close the garage or keep them in the house or in the backyard (their yard faces the freeway so at least the screams wouldn't bother all their neighbors), but no, they keep them in the garage and let them shreik all damn day. bastards!

so, first spotted-nape doves at my parents' house... then franklin birds at my friends' house... and now parrots. birds, you have just put yourselves on my permanent shit list. bastards.