another reason to hate birds

On the sidewalk, right outside the Subway (sandwich shop) on Broadway, someone has painted an incredible portrait of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's really detailed and accurate. Anyway, I passed by it this morning and noticed - TO MY HORROR - that a pigeon had passed away on Barack's cheek. This would, of course, be revolting even if I didn't have a serious bird thing. It was so gross and yet, so hilarious, that I decided to take a picture of it. So I stood back and fumbled around in my purse trying to find my iPhone.

And then, at that very moment, a dude came strolling down the sidewalk, chattering away on his cellphone, not paying attention to where he was stepping and he totally got tangled up in the dead Obama cheek pigeon. AND HE WAS WEARING FLIP FLOPS. I think he sort of scooped a wing up with the front flap of one shoe... and then turned it over when he took a step... and then in an attempt to side-step the carcass, ended up shifting it to the other foot and causing a weird tip-toe shuffle dance. It was a mess. A terrible, disgusting mess. It happened so quickly, I wasn't able to capture it on camera. And by the time it was over, the pigeon had shifted off of Obama's cheek and on to the plain sidewalk, thus ruining the hilarity of the photo. So... I have no photographic evidence of the encounter. Probably better that way.

Man, am I glad I'm not in politics, where birds will straight DIE ON YOUR FACE.