Post Office Drama

 Well, as I mentioned in my last post, I ordered some birds this past week. So, I went to the post office to pick them up. When I got there, I noticed there was this dog that was pretty tightly tied to a pole. He seemed lonely, so I approached him. The dog seemed sweet. I started talking to him gently, I held my hand out, like I always do with dogs, and when I did, the dog laid down flat on the ground. Almost like he was trying to tell me to go away, but he was also whining and got excited when I spoke to him. It was a black and white dog, looked kinda like a mixed pit bull. It wasn't stocky like a pit, but it had a pit bull-like face. The body was long and slender, kinda like a greyhound. I didn't think there was any harm in just talking to the dog. But when I held out my hand, this little guy thundered out of the doors of the post office and started shouting at me "Hey! Don't touch my dog!"

I just looked at him, then I looked at the dog. The dog had a look on his face like he was saying "I tried to warn you!" The man kept yelling and yelling about my approaching his dog, saying "That's un-fucking-respectable and RUDE!" I said to him "It's not rude." Then he goes on and on, "you don't walk up to a dog and just touch it without asking, Jesus Christ! That's disrespectful!" I told him I wasn't going to hurt his dog and he said "I don't care you don't touch other peoples' dogs without asking them that's fucking disrespectful! ANYBODY knows that!" I said I never seen anyone get so bent out of shape because someone wanted to pet their dog. I could definitely understand it if someone came up to his dog and kicked it right off. Then I'd have seen his way. But I didn't. All I did was talk to the dog, and reach out my hand. He was calling me names, so I called him a dumbass. I stopped myself the first time I was going to say that, cuz I didn't know this idiot and I didn't want it to carry on and on. But then he said "Yeah! Call me something! Go ahead and say it!" That was when I blurted out "Dumb ass!"

Granted, I could have just walked by the dog. But I didn't think it'd hurt anything to give the dog a little rub between his ears or something. I will tell you now, I don't need to pet anyone else's dogs! I have 3 living with me now (2 of which are mine). And I don't even like pit bulls that much. I was simply trying to be nice. I let people pet my dogs all the time. One of them is even a service animal. But this dog was not a service animal at all. If it was, it wouldn't have been tied to a pole. It would have been with him. This guy was a damn weirdo! He kept talking to himself. And loudly too. He was so loud, he almost got the both of us kicked out of the building.

I was looking out the window while standing in line, behind this crazy dude. I saw another guy outside actually bending down to pet his dog. I turned to him and said "Hey dude, someone else is out there petting your dog." He answered "Yeah and I'll tell him not to, too." I waited for a minute before going on with him. Then I said "I don't see you doing anything!" He said "I will when I get out there!" But he never did. I just stood there laughing at him. I don't know who this guy was, I'd never seen him before. But I think he was a homeless man, probably from Portland. Maybe that dog was the only friend he has in the world. He sure was mean! He reminded me a lot of that F-bomb guy I used to see at the fairgrounds. I always wonder why every time I go out alone, I always meet the degenerates in this town? I don't look for them, but I seem to run into them all the time.

Well, thankfully he left and didn't say another word to me. And I was not about to let him ruin my day! I had birds now to think about. So, I picked them up and brought them home. There was only one casualty, and I emailed the company about it. But I ordered a male-female couple of blue faced parrot finches, and I got one red-faced male and a blue-faced female! How the hell did that happen??? LOL! I wish if they were going to give me a red-faced male that they also would have given me a red-faced female too. Now I have to get a female for the red-faced male and a male for the blue-faced female!