Story of the Crow

Lemme tell ya a story that happened last wednesday... :)

So on the june 28 (wed) morning I woke up extra early... well earlier than usual at least... at about 8am. Finished chores at around 10.45am. So as I was happily enjoying my Honey Stars with milk, feeling extra energetic, I heard sounds outside so I rushed to the door and take a look. Turned out this huge crow was sitting on the clothes-hanger (or whatever it's called..you get it), trying to grab a red new hanger with its beak! It was soooo gigantic I actually had a scare by just standing 8 feet away from it. (Then again that's normal for a animaliaphobic person like me!)

Anyway, I opened the door and shooed it away. Went back to my Honey Stars, thinking that everything is back to normal, the same stupid sound appeared again, in less than 2 minutes. Deep down I'm cursing... for making me confront a crow, which would make me look stupid cuz I'll be a laughing stalk for being afraid of a bird!! I shooed it away again; but as I did, I thought, this poor crow must be looking for something to build its nest (i've seen birdnests with a hanger before). So I couldn't help wanting to do something for poor Mr. Crow. Guess what I did?

Thought I'd offer Mr. Crow an old slightly-broken blue plastic hanger and hanged it where it was sitting just now and took all the others to the bottom-most hanging line. But Mr. Crow was smart! He didnt come back for it anymore... maybe cuz it was old, broken and slightly rusty at the tip. I was really amused by it!! Impressive!!! :P

Anyway, tht wasn't the main point of the story. The night before my mom asked me to take a cloth in and keep it in the kitchen drawer. A while after the crow-incident, I saw the cloth on the floor cuz of the breeze and made a mental note to pick it up before the crow did. Not sure if I did, but sorta forgot everythg bout it. Till in the afternoon around 5pm, I suddenly recalled of that cloth and panicked! Did i bring it in or the crow took it? Went out to check and it wasn't there anymore!

Straight away I made a conclusion that Mr. Smarty-Crow took it for its nest! Cuz the cloth is used to clean the altar, I was pretty annoyed at myself for being so forgetful. And so when mom came home I told her all bout it and how the Mr. Smarty-Crow wanted to take revenge and took the cloth away! I was so convinced that when I told my mom I thought I sounded very animated anyone would've believed me right away even if the story was a bit illogical. But while I was saying it, my own sense of logic hit me and for a millisecond there I had a slight doubt. So I decided to check the pile of clothes that I collected in.

Oooops!! I was wrong afterall. The cloth is just sitting right there! The crow aint that smart afterall... Then I realized how stupid I am, to think that the crow was smart enough to choose the hanger and to wanna take revenge! Dumb! And I call myself a college student. Which college student in their right mind would think of it that way?!! Nonetheless, we all had a terribly good laugh bout this!

Moral of the lesson: Sometimes imagination can impair our judgment. Having an idea in the head bout smthg that might happen a certain way before anything actually happens might sway our rational thinking, and it'd blind us from the whole picture or the truth itself. So never make any conclusion before knowing the whole situation clearly. Oh and of course, the crow's persistence is to be admired too, eh? :P

So nice, a crow taught me 2 lessons that day. heh.