For the birds...

It started out like any other day. John, Bella and I made our way outside of the apartment building to take Bella out for her morning potty stop and see John off to work. After about a block of walking we sent John on his way and Bella and I kept going around the block while she proceeded to sniff a thousand things and pee on about 3 of them. As we were walking I kept feeling like something was following us. I soon realized that a pair of birds kept hopping from tree to tree behind us as we made our way down the block. Not thinking anything of it, we kept going about our business and the next thing I know something hit me on the back of the head.

Well, of course the usual instinct is to scream, right?! So of course, that's what I did... 7:30 in the morning with people all in their nice business attire and here I am in my shorts and tank top walking my dog and screaming like a mad woman. Yep, I'm THAT girl. This nice little parking attendant looked at me and just kinda smiled, and I felt the need to justify myself and to let him know that I was just attacked by a bird. It kinda felt like that scene in Dirty Dancing where Baby says "I carried a watermelon". Like after those words came out of my mouth, I repeated them in my head thinking "I'm such a loser!"

Fearing for my life (and Bella's too) I went into a slow jog while pulling Bella along with one hand(remember she has to sniff EVERYTHING) and using the other hand to kinda wave around my head and run fingers through my hair to try to deter the birds from making another move. I literally felt like a crazy person on the inside but feeling like I had to hold my sh*t together since there were actually normal people all around me.

Well, we safely made it to the end of the block and back into the apartment building. I now seem to have a mild phobia of birds after that incident. And now every time I mention the incident to people they ask me if I've ever seen the movie "The Birds". No, I haven't and there is NO WAY I'm going to watch it now because they are legitimately psycho little beasts - I don't need a movie to get me more worked up about them than I already am!