So I decided to write a post about a bird incident that I
had a few weeks ago because my mother cannot stop laughing about it and she
tells everyone about it.
I do have to admit that this incident was the scariest
thirty seconds that I have ever encountered.
I was on my way to the bank one day after a long day of
work. I was a little nervous because I
was going to the bank to try and get a loan to pay off my student loans so I
was mentally preparing myself for the worst.
I was driving down a fairly busy road, I was going roughly
forty-five miles per hour, and I had my driver’s side as well as the passenger
side windows down. I was listening to my
music when all of a sudden something flew into my window past my face into my
backseat.
I turned my music down and tried to listen to see if I could
hear anything and I could. I could hear
FLAPPING! I started freaking out because
I hate birds. All birds! There is not one bird in this world that I
like. I was afraid that my eyes were going
to be clawed out so I started throwing my arms everywhere to make sure that
this bird didn’t come near me.
I was still going forty-five perhaps more because I was
scared. I tried to keep an eye on the
bird in the backseat because this bird was like a spider to me. (I hate spiders more than anything but now
birds are right up there.) I had to
watch this bird like a spider to make sure that I knew where it was at all
times.
At this point I had rolled down all of the windows in my
car, including the back ones, in the hope that this bird will fly back out one
of them. It took a few seconds but the
bird eventually flew back out into the environment and I was left alone in my
car.
I looked in my rearview mirror to make sure that both of my
eyes were still there and I saw that of course my hair was a mess. I thought I was would take looking like that
over having a bird in my car any day.
When I told my mother this story she kept asking two questions. (In between bursts of laughter, of course.)
“Who does that happen to?” and “What kind of bird was it?”
My answers were “Well it happened to me and any bird would
have been scary to have flying and flapping around in the back of your car!”
The bird was a crow and since I’ve told a few people this
terrifying story they’ve told me stories of people they know that this has
happened to as well. So apparently it’s
more common than one thinks. Be careful
when driving with your windows down you never know what may fly into your car!
