is it just me?

someone in my neighborhood posted a sign about a lost pet. A common enough occurrence, but this pet is a bird. Some kind of fancy African parrot. Um...how exactly are we supposed to catch said parrot and bring it back? I wish I knew because they are offering a $200 reward. I bet all the birdwatchers in the neighborhood are on the lookout big time. Anyway, while I suppose a parrot would stick out in a neighborhood full of robins and cardinals, it's a bird. We aren't going to see it walking through someone's yard or begging for food on someone's porch. Who knows, maybe it is trying to fly back to Africa as we speak. Anyway, I feel that the chances of finding this lost bird are very slim. We had a pet bird get away once and truthfully it never even really occurred to us to look for him. I imagine he died while endlessly flying around looking for a tiny dish of seeds with a festive mirror attached.

A while back some neighbors lost their cat. They called in a pet psychic to find out where it was. Then they asked our friends if they could search their house, because the psychic had said something about a red house. The strange part is that our friends' house isn't even red. It just has red trim, which means those people were desperate. Though, I guess we could have guessed that from the pet psychic. People are weird.