A Real Case of an Angry Bird

     I was about 10 years old.  My older sister, Lisa, must of been freshly 17 and still inexperienced at driving although she did have her license.  It was early summer and we were getting ready to enjoy a relaxing girls weekend up at Houghton Lake, just my mom, sister and I. 

     We decided to grab a lunch at Burger King before heading north on the highway.  Lisa pressed the button to lower the window on the 1986 Cadillac Eldorado and placed our order at the drive-thru speaker box.  She drove around the building to get our food from the window.  After obtaining our lunches Lisa pulled forward slightly to pass out the orders so the car behind can get their orders from the drive-thru window. 

     While digging into the bag to pass back my sandwich and nibbling on a few fries she noticed a seagull looking in her direction a few yards away.  She nervously laughed and said, "Look at those seagulls!  It's like they want to get in the car to take our food."

     "My mom chuckled, "It is not going to fly in our car!  They don't know we have food in here."

     Almost as if the seagull knew what my mom was saying the bird had to prove her wrong.  The seagull quickly flew up into the window and started squaking and flapping its wings.  My sister frantically hopped over onto my mom's lap tipping the drinks over screaming, "I AM BEAK TO NOSE WITH THE BIRD!"  I was in the back seat just laughing hysterically as the birds wingspan was flapping openly in the car. 

     "ROLL UP THE WINDOW" yells my mom.

     " I CAN'T!  THE BIRD IS IN THE WAY!  THE WINDOW WILL SQUISH IT" screamed my sister back.

     I am not sure if my sister kicked out the bird or if it flew out on its own, but after the bird exited the car my sister tossed the bird some fries to keep it occupied as she quickly raised up the window.  Looking back I wonder how this commotion must of looked to the car behind us as a bird flies in the car and the driver quickly flies over to the passengers seat.  It sure must of been a sight.

     We pulled out of Burger King and headed straight up to Houghton Lake.  We didn't bother cleaning up the spilled drinks at the moment.  There was several birds.  We wanted to get out of there before they all started attacking.  I think we learned a very important lesson from that incident.  When ordering from the drive-thru always look to see if birds are around.  And if they are roll the windows up first before opening up the bags!