Sunday, July 20, 2008

A chance encounter


Last Thursday, July 17th, after dropping off my son at day care, I went to Apple Bank to deposit a check.  As I headed for the exit, I heard a bank employee, who was walking in front of me, say that someone's window shopping and she's wondering what he wants.  I assumed she was talking about some hobo. I walked out of the bank and imagine my surprise when I found out that the aforementioned window shopper was, in fact, a goose.

The goose was walking up and down the sidewalk and looking into the stores.  What I wonder is where did he come from.  I've seen birds other than the rat with wings pigeons flying around, but they never landed on the sidewalk and they definitely never went for a stroll.

I didn't have time to hang around to see what happened, so I headed home.  As I was walking away, I heard a woman say that someone should call 911 or something.  How about calling a shochet.

In retrospect, this would be great advertising for a meat store.  "Our meat's so fresh, it'll carry itself" or "Our meat's so fresh, it's still alive".


11 comments:

  1. That is so funny. Or "It really wants to be eaten. It will fly to your plate."

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  2. Nice one! Reminds me of this funny video floating around youtube of this seagull who swipes chips. Posted it on my blog with a link to you.

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  3. Thank ye kindly good sir.
    I got video too, but it's 3gp, gotta convert and upload.

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  4. lol.

    who woulda known you'd see a goose walking down the street.

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  5. It was unreal. And he wasn't even afraid of the people around him.

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  6. that was really cool, a bird window shopping! It's great that you got the pics and vids, makes it more interesting.

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  7. I wish I'd bothered to take a better and longer video. :-(

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  8. Where the hell did this duck come from?

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  9. I wish I knew. I think I've seen Sea Gulls flying over Pic N Pay, but geese...

    So dude, when you setting up your own blog already? Is it gonna be the same as it was with fb?

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