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Ramsses II
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(12/28/05 9:41 pm)
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Everyone at the office knows about my myna bird. I found it there just after it had fallen out of its nest, and I had to bring it to work a couple of times in open violation of the rule against pets because it had to be hand fed constantly. Other times I had to run out to my car and secretly feed her as often as I could risk. One of the women at the office told me that she too had found a baby myna outside the building, and had carefully wrapped it up in paper towels so as not to give it a human scent, and then reached up to put it on top of a pipe at the corner of the building so that the mother would be more apt to pick it up. Unfortunately the pipe was open. Any idiot could have seen this. There is a hose running into it at the top, and it is quite obvious, even though above eye level, that it is open. I cited this story to my wife as a certifiable act of egregious infamy. She rightly pointed out that the woman had been deathly ill with lime disease and was only doing the best she could.

Nevertheless, I was vaguely tormented by this story for weeks. Finally, curiosity and horror got the better of me, and I went out and examined the pipe. I asked myself what I would have done if it had happened to me. I grabbed the pipe and shook it. It turned out to be plastic and not attached to the ground but held to the corner of the building by a series of bolts. It could have been ripped off with a crowbar. I grabbed a ladder from the warehouse and climbed up to have a look. There was some sort of plug inside with a little space around the edges that came more than halfway up the pipe but was too far down to be reached by hand. It was here that the end of the hose dangled, apparently some sort of drainage system for the air conditioners. Sure enough, on top of the plug could be seen the telltale outline of feathers. As I stood there disconsolately peering down into the crime scene, who should come by but the woman in question? She knew exactly what I was doing. She took no offense. She just didn't want to be pegged as a baby killer. She repeated her story, stressing that she had been so upset by it that for months she had avoided this side of the building. I just wondered if I looked as foolish as I felt. Who was I to stand over her in judgment? But then I am hopelessly in love with a myna bird.

Edited by: Ramsses II at: 12/28/05 11:27 pm
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