Wait. I want to know how the canary copped it.

(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 15:25, 1 reply)

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as those of you who have done d of e may know, you have to complete 4 sections: a 2 day trek, physical, skills and community service.

so my friend and i chose care for animals. she worked in a petshop at weekends. one day, the owner left us alone for 5 mins. my friend, whom we shall identify correctly as sam, decided she could cope with cleaning out the canaries.

she could not and one made a desperate bid for freedom.

there followed about 10 mins of benny hill-esque panic as sam chased the poor terrified feathery little twat around the shop with a net. eventually i told her to leave the poor thing alone. at which point it perched obligingly on the top of the display board in the window. sam could not resist. she pounced once more with the net...

... and shoved it, beak first, into the window, where its poor little neck snapped. there it was, for all the world to see, stuck between the glass and the display board, a dead bird with a broken neck. that only works for a butcher, not a pet shop.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 15:32, closed)

I shouldn't laugh, but....
Anyway. As a responsible adult ( a label for anyone over 30 with a child for some reason ), I've been on a few camps with DofE kids before, one group didn't like me that much, I think it may have something to do with me waving goodnight to them grinning from my campervan as they crept into their wind and rain battered tents.
Or it could have been something else, who knows?
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 16:13, closed)

the woman who ran the shop was fucking furious
the rest of us may have lol'd. poor canary though.

i suspect it was your grinning face. do you think it could have been your face?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Aug 2014, 16:18, closed)

Sob
Yes, yes it was!

DON'T LOOK AT ME!!
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Fri 22 Aug 2014, 9:07, closed)