Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Some of you know that a few years ago I received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity. I tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary.
Finally, I was fed up, and yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelledback. I shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. In desperation, I threw up my hands, grabbed the bird, and put himin the freezer.
For a few minutes, the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that I'd hurt the parrot, I quickly opened the door to thefreezer.The parrot calmly stepped out onto my outstretched arms and said tome, "I believe I may have offended you with my rude language andactions. I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my offensive andunforgivable behavior."
I was stunned at the change in the bird's attitude. Just as I was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in hisbehavior, the bird continued, "May I ask what the turkey did?"
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!