A Bird in the Hand

Okay, this is just something weird. Was at Dick’s Sporting Goods today. Like many stores, they keep a bunch of carts outside along the front wall. My son noticed something between the carts and the wall: it was a pigeon. I looked closer and saw that its tail feathers were caught under a wheel of a cart.

I pushed the cart just enough for the bird to get free and stepped back to make sure it could move about. We went on into the store and got what we needed. When we came out, the bird was gone.

For some reason, it didn’t seem particularly odd at the time, but now, several hours later, it’s striking me as almost surreal. I mean, there was a pigeon behind some store carts with its tail feathers caught under a wheel. How did that happen? How long had that bird been there?

My son loves animals, and was a little concerned for the bird. I assured him it would be alright; it didn’t seem injured. But. . . its tail feathers were caught under a cart wheel. Can a pigeon get embarrassed? I mean, it did look back and forth a couple times, as if checking to see if any other pigeons saw what happened.

Bullgrit