Quoth the Raven. Funny, I really don't have an appropriate category to put this one in except "Weird".
Dudette called from work the other night to tell me she was on the way home. That is my cue to start her much needed ( believe me, I don't mess around with her before she gets her...) coffee. It isn't all that hard. It's a one cup machine and quick to set up.
So, in no time, the maker was making all the rude noises they are prone to, and the house was filling up with the wonderful aroma of fresh brewed.
And the phone rings,
It's Dudette. She was calling from the garage on her cell phone.
D: "Hey. I spooked something in the garage. It is black and it jumped in the corner by the door. I don't know if it is a cat or small dog."
Me: (thinking) *great. probably a black "cat" with "racing stripes".*
"Okay, let me peek out the door."
-opens door a crack - looks out - gets looked back at - by a black bird-
M: "It's a bird."
D: Let me back out and you scare it out."
M: *why do "I" get to scare it out* "Okay."
Dudette backs out of the garage and I step out the door. The bird squawks and runs across the garage and under my truck. I finally convinced it to leave after a few quick passes by the truck.
The Hero!
One of these days the darn thing WILL have racing stripes.
Won't I be happy.
Critters happen.
There must have been something shiny in the garage that caught the raven's eye (like maybe the hood of you truck - ha).
Posted by: bogie | October 22, 2005 at 05:52 AM
Umm...folks...hate to tell you this: There are no ravens in Wichita. The bird might have been a common crow, or a long-tailed grackle (this would get my vote, knowing only what WD wrote about the bird), or a common grackle, or a starling, or....
Whatever it was, it's hard to imagine the poor little thing as a threat. WD--Dudette just wanted to give you a chance to play Knight in Shining Armor--lol!
Posted by: Cop Car | October 24, 2005 at 10:37 AM
Oh sure, burst our dramatic bubbles.
Posted by: bogie | October 25, 2005 at 03:15 AM
Quoth the long-tailed grackle, "Nevermore." just doesn't have the rhythm that Poe intended, does it. OK. Allowing for poetic license, WD and Dudette had a raven in their garage!
Posted by: Cop Car | October 25, 2005 at 10:06 AM
Quoth the long-tailed grackle, "Nevermore." just doesn't have the rhythm that Poe intended, does it. OK. Allowing for poetic license, WD and Dudette had a raven in their garage!
Posted by: Cop Car | October 25, 2005 at 10:08 AM
Hey! Let them have their illusions! The man that thought he had a raven in his garage is also the man that had a mouse that was 2 feet long in the lawn a couple of years back. Although the mouse keeps getting bigger every year.
Posted by: CK | October 28, 2005 at 10:34 AM