My friend gave me a parrot. She said it was completely annoying and couldn’t handle it talking to her all of the time. With this Covid crap going around, I didn’t mind the extra company in my lonely apartment. Well my friend wasn’t lying, the parrot talked. But it kept repeating the same question over and over again, “What’s my name?” At first I guessed Lupe, Chico, Delores, Alba, and so on. Well it got old and every time I guessed wrong the Parrot would scream horrible cuss words at me. It got to be a terrible game for me. I decided to quit guessing, but every time it saw me it would ask me again, and again, and again, and AGAIN! One day the stupid thing was pestering me so badly that I was at the end of my rope.

I picked up the Cage.

I carried it to our second story window.

I opened the window.

I opened the cage door and I grabbed the Parrot.

I held him out the window and I shouted,

“Your Johnny Freebird!! Now Fly AWAY!!”

I let him go and he immediately flew back into my house. Then Johnny said, “How was your day, Joan? Mine was Crazy!!!”