Friday, May 7, 2010

Lunch

Went outside to refresh my brain and sat on a curb in a park. Watched a sparrow hop off the curb across the way and hop towards me. Then it hopped off to the left of me and joined another sparrow eating some crumbs. It only ate a few and then jumped into the grassy area and shoved its beak into dandelion that had turned from yellow to white but had not yet gotten into blow-able form. It pulled out a tuft and chewed off the seeds. Shoved its beak back in, and more seeds. I thought I understood then why the bigger one was bigger - eating carbohydrates rather than protein. But then the it finished the crumbs and jumped up to the dandelion and pecked the other one away and proceeded to eat the seeds. The smaller one was lower on the pecking order and had to go find something else...

I had a funnier way of telling this, but lost it...

1 comment:

Churlita said...

I like the way you did tell it. Pecking order isn't all that funny anyway...But carbs vs. proteins was hilarious.