This is for the birds....

[+ purplekow]

I related the following to a colleague at work:

 

I awoke to the sound of dogs barking and I came out of the bedroom to find a bunch of stuff knocked to the ground. Suddenly, a bird came flying off of a curtain rod and the dogs began chasing it around. The bird flew into a window and fell to the ground and one of the dogs, Ben for those who know my dogs, grabbed the bird and began running around the house with it in his mouth. I shouted at him to drop it, which he did and the bird flew off and right into a wall in the bathroom and landed in the dog water bowl. I was able to empty the bowl and place the bowl out the window. A few minutes later, I looked in the bowl and the bird was gone. Free as a bird or cat chow, but gone.

I then headed to take a shower and I stepped into the shower and a bird dive bombed me in there. I closed the bathroom door and this bird too flew about, but low to the ground and not into walls. He hid behind a space heater, and then behind a plunger, a waste basket and a can of paint. Each time I moved the item, he found another place to hide. Eventually I could not find him, so I opened the window and left the room. He either made his way out or died somewhere in the bathroom, but just like DB Cooper and Jimmy Hoffa, he was not seen again.

 

So I tell this tale over coffee and my colleague states: Birds in the house means death is near.

 

Charming.

 

I then googled it and there are some references to this old wives tale.

 

Has anyone heard of this old wives tale? Anyone have any stories of birds in the house being an actual omen of a disaster? Any other stories of old wives tales coming true? Has anyone ever actually stepped on a crack and broke his mother's back?

[Kevin Slater]

Birds in the house means death is near.

 

Well, buzzards maybe.

 

Kevin Slater

[+ azdr0710]

if the worst happens, put me down for the dogs

[dlee02]

I'm not sure why, but the first thing that came to mind after reading your unusual morning experience was the movie "Psycho"...

[+ purplekow]

I'm not sure why, but the first thing that came to mind after reading your unusual morning experience was the movie "Psycho"...

It does indeed have elements of Psycho and the Birds. My Hitchcockian morning. I would have preferred a his cock in a morning.

[+ glennnn]

Yes, morning or night cocks are good. Birds are also good omens.....you know the Bluebird of Happiness, the Red, Red Robin, bobbing along, Listen to the Mocking Bird, Tweety, Woody Woodpecker, etc. There are a lot more good birds, than bad birds.....relax!

[AdamSmith]

Yes, morning or night cocks are good. Birds are also good omens.....you know the Bluebird of Happiness, the Red, Red Robin, bobbing along, Listen to the Mocking Bird, Tweety, Woody Woodpecker, etc. There are a lot more good birds, than bad birds.....relax!

You left out two of the best!

 

http://cartoon-characters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Heckle-and-Jeckle-featured.jpg

[kewtex]

Is this the same bathroom where the guest left a towel on the floor? If so, it sounds as if that bathroom see a lot of action. ;-)

[+ Keith30309]

Someone will be right over.

 

 

[+ poolboy48220]

A bird got in the house yesterday. No idea how it got in, but I was able to let it out through a window I opened.

[AdamSmith]

P.S. Even though we're not supposed to post personal pics of forum members here...

 

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tippi-Hedren.jpg

[+ sync]

So I tell this tale over coffee and my colleague states: Birds in the house means death is near.

 

I'm thinking it means considering screens for your windows.

[Phil_musc]

Wasn't PK recently in the hospital for something? Might this be a PTS hallucination from the drugs they gave him?

 

In answer to the question posed, however - I'd leave the tales to the old wives and keep the tails for myself.

[MiamiLooker]

Is this the same bathroom where the guest left a towel on the floor? If so, it sounds as if that bathroom see a lot of action. ;-)

Doesn't Emily Post recommend placing the used towels on the bathroom paint cans?

[+ purplekow]

Is this the same bathroom where the guest left a towel on the floor? If so, it sounds as if that bathroom see a lot of action. ;-)

Different bathroom i would never subjest birds to my guest bathroom

[+ purplekow]

Doesn't Emily Post recommend placing the used towels on the bathroom paint cans?

i doubt it. I doubt MS. Post was doing home repairs

[+ purplekow]

I'm thinking it means considering screens for your windows.

They probably come in through the open door for the dogs. But a doggy door probably would be a good idea.

[AdamSmith]

(If I've posted this before, please pardon.)

 

I once had a colleague whose mother-in-law passed away in his house, where his wife had been caring for her mother through her terminal illness. The mother-in-law heartily disliked the son-in-law, who vigorously returned the favor.

 

Couple weeks after her funeral, a bat one evening got into the third floor of their triple-decker house through an open unscreened skylight. The couple thought they heard something, went upstairs to investigate, spied the bat -- and the husband couldn't resist cracking, "Back so soon?"

 

I think the wife only kicked him out of the master bedroom for a day or two.