Eco Butt-Crack Bird

Doing what any loving Eco-minded parent would do…I took my kids to some garage sales. What? It was a fun time shopping teachable moment! We so love a good deal on a well-seasoned toy at bargain basement pricing.

So, as we were approaching this garage, a young guy greeted the kids and tried diligently to give them some used plug-into-the -tv kind of game, that even at FREE I kindly refused (I said we like a good deal, not junk).

I guess a young(ish) mom toting 3-5 kids at any given time looks like she might need an electronic babysitter. Not today though. I was on a mission to find something with a bit more pizazz than a 25 cent left-over Happy meal toy.

I let this poor guy continue trying to “sell” the kids on his freebie box, while mostly I was trying not to stare at his ear. Ew. It was HALF OFF. Now typically half-off to me is more appealling than in this particular instance.

As I stood pondering over the ear which stack of clothes to dig through first, I hear the kids about rolling over in laughter. All I could think was that there was a naked doll baby, used toilet seat, or some of grandma’s briefs that the kids found. Nope.

It was a bird.

Not just any old bird ma friend. A gorgeous, red-featherd toy parrot sitting on a brown branch. SCORE! With the attention this thing was getting I had to have it. My son begged me to buy it, so due to the fact that I was still feeling sorry for the “freebie guy” not getting us to take his tv game…I said sure. It was only fifty cents for pete’s sake.

BIG. Mistake.

As soon as I gave the toy back to the kids, the parrot starts belting out with…

Butt-crack!

**four-year old laughter**

Butt-crack!

**laughter from innocent bystanders**

Butt-crack!

**the entire flipping garage of people!

Yep…that’s my kid. He just taught the talking parrot about the crevice of a buttocks. And NO I did NOT teach him that. It had to be the electronic babysitter. Geesh, what kind of parent do you think I am.

So, with my tail between my legs, (yeah, I actually was kinda chuckling too though) I happily paid the freebie guy’s wife for this sweet and innocent little “repeat-whatever-you-say” birdie. Handing her my money, I notice their pit-bull tied up at the back of the garge. Ah ha, that’s where the ear went! Off we went, with our parrot and sense of peace over what happened to freebie’s left ear.

All in a day’s work of an Eco-minded mama.