Talking to Burts

January 8, 2011 2:09 pm · 0 comments

by Ann Hodgman

Dear Laura and John,

“As you know,” I often find myself talking to things that don’t answer, especially animals.  Once I said “Hey, buddy!” to a sparrow I was walking past, and so on.  Well, yesterday I was walking through a parking lot at Canterbury (which, “as you know,” is a school) when a crow cawed three times, very loudly.  Without thinking, I called back “You got it, bird!”  I didn’t say it.  I shouted it right out.

What if some kids had heard me?  What am I going to do?

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