We spent the morning at the park. Pudd'n gleefully chased any and every duck into the many lakes at this park. It was cute to watch him, but I did feel sorry for the ducks. When we got to the play ground a couple pulled up with some kids in the car. I was happy for that, kids for Pudd'n to watch and model from. Then I looked at the little girl, she was standing and waiting by the car. She had her hands held over her ears. Steve and I looked at each other, we knew right away the girl had Autism. When they got her brother out, we noticed he was also Autistic too. Two kids with Autism. Damn, that has to be hard. That is the exact reason why we did not have any more kids.
Later on we went to Omar's Exotic Bird shop. Pudd'n made a bee line straight for a blue & gold Macaw. Only thing was, that bird wanted nothing to do with Pudd'n. Of course Pudd'n does not recognize this and I'm having a hell of a time keeping his little fingers away from that damn big beak on that bird! Turns out the bird wanted nothing to do with kids, just liked adults. So I figure I'll hold the bird and maybe then pudd'n can pet him. Well this damn bird had other ideas in his little brain. It made it's way up my arm (no matter how hard I tried to put him back on his perch). My shoulder was not good enough........nooooooo. He wanted to sit on TOP of my fucking head!!! So he's grabbing on to my hair clip and getting his claws all in my hair. Now would be a good time to streach his wings right? So he starts flapping the damn things, I can't find Steve and pudd'n is off stemming some place or terrorizing some other parrot. I'm trying not to freak out, what if this thing shits in my hair?? I finally get Steve's atendsion to get his ass over to help me. "Well just put him back on the perch" he tells me. No fucking shit! Don't you think I've tried this already? He gets the bird untangled from my hair and tries to put it back..........with no luck. I smirk with statisfaction. "Told you so!". Finally a store employee came over and got the bird back on the perch and we came out of there with all of our fingers intact.