August 24, 2010

Rocks, birds, and boys

As I was collecting my children from the neighbor's yard, she turned to me and asked, "Did you hear about the bird?"


"No." I replied, totally unaware of the shock I was about to receive.

She laughs and tells me this story.

"Well, there was this bird all tangled up in some netting we have sitting out. It was pretty stuck so it must have been there a while. But before I could do anything to get it out, I see Joseph with a rock in his hand standing over it. Then, *boop* he dropped it right on the bird."

I stood there absolutely mortified, horrified, and utterly speechless as I tried to decide what I needed more, a psychologist or chocolate.

At that moment, all the kids ran by and my immobilized body made of jello quickly hardened in determination as I grabbed Joseph from the pack, knelt in front of him and asked why in the world he would do such a thing!

His little face crumpled and his eyes got just a little misty.

"Betause," He answered in a small, squeaky voice, "Betause he had a mean face!."

He just looked so down right distraught.

Whatever answer I was expecting, that wasn't it. 

And I had to choke on my surprised laugh.

14 super cool people speak:

Kristina P. said...

How can you not! Birds are kind of scary.

Jess said...

ohhhh! How sad!! Guess it's a good time to teach about ressurection, right? Poor birdy!

Neisha said...

lol!! i would have had to choke on my laughter too :)

Welcome to the Garden of Egan said...

Seriously so true.
Have you really looked at a bird?
They are mean and scary looking.

And then there's that one movie....

Lara Neves said...

Okay, that's very funny! Poor bird, poor mom! And poor kid, faced with such a mean looking creature!

Doran & Jody said...

Whoa!! I will make sure that I have a BRIGHT HAPPY SMILE if I ever meet that boy.

:) :) :) How am I doing?

Susan Anderson said...

Cracking up at what Doran and Jody said.

heehee

=D

Saimi said...

A frightened face to a little boy could look a bit scary!

CB said...

That would be kind of shocking but birds really do have kind of a mean and scary look to them - I don't think you have to worry about that kid being pushed around in school! (wink!)

mCat said...

He was doing the bird a favor! Putting it out of it' misery. Both from it's mean face, but from the fact that it had been tangled for quite a while and was likely hurt and traumatized.

I think your son did him a favor.

And yes, what a great teching moment!

ldsjaneite said...

I'll be sure if I ever see him again not to let your son see my mean face.

Larsen said...

Catchin up on the blog here. Nice one--bum bum band aides. WOW.

Gotta say that Alayna doesn't look at all like a monster. See my monsters faces on my blog--the one with Cate holding Brooklyn on a wood deck---now there is a monster.

And last--- but certainly not least-- birds do have mean faces. Can't blame him.

Braden Bell said...

It's always the cute ones you have to watch out for. Every. Single. Time

Teachinfourth said...

And even as I tried to sleep, the air humidifier droned and seemed to whisper, 'bird killer…"

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