This is what we happy, jolly Tuesday shoppers at Walmart had to face at dusk...
See those little specs on the top edge of the building?
Those were Grackles. Black birds to some of you. In Austin they are Grackles, and they are obnoxious, annoying, invasive, really nasty, aggressive birds. And when they like a place, they REALLY like it. They like Walmart a lot more than I do, apparently.
There were 700 billion of them in the Walmart parking lot.
So, all the happy, jolly shoppers who couldn't get into their cars because their cars were covered with Grackles, were pulling out their cell phones, muttering the word "Hitchcock", and taking pictures. Me included.
Getting home to start wrapping all those gifts in our baskets suddenly wasn't important. We all had to get pictures of the birds.
And I'm sure we all drove home trying to see through the bird shit on our windshields, thinking, "Wow, that was really something. Maybe we'll go back to Walmart tomorrow."
I'm not sure how Walmart pulled this off, but they have some good PR people.
Happy shopping!
5 comments:
what are you getting at wally world at 5 am??? let us do that
5:00am...only dreams! And it looks more like twilight than dusk...to me :)
OK, tkiskers and Husband, it was 6:00 pm, NOT DAWN, or TWILIGHT. Actually what is twilight?
But you both are missing the point!!! The point is THE BIRDS!!!!!!!!
I must admit...I'm downright frightened of that many birds in one place at one time. It's unnatural.
Yep, and being at Walmart makes it even more frightening! Unnatural is a perfect word.
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