It wasn't ME, Mom!

This morning I was sitting at my desktop computer in my office down the hall from the living room. I was concentrating on finishing up the day’s humor mailing so I could get it sent out, and kept hearing Young Son giggling. It sounded just like it does when I’m sitting on the living room couch, and he’s down in his room in the basement right underneath me, laughing at something he’s watching on tv.

It passed through my mind to wonder what he was doing up so early since he doesn't have to go to work today, and what in the world he was watching on tv that time of morning, but I was busy so didn’t think any more about it until he came upstairs a while later.

Then I asked him what had him laughing so bright and early, and he informed me it wasn’t him because he just got up.

Ohhhhhh…. picture the little light bulb going off over my head. If it wasn’t the Geek giggling, then it was our parrot imitating him. Sure enough, I heard the same sound a little while later when I knew the Geek wasn’t in the basement..

Mind you, the parrot stops the minute you walk in the room and gives you that innocent, “It wasn’t me!” kind of look. And she’ll probably never do it so Geek will get to hear it. But she has a perfect rendition of the sound, just like she imitates the sound of a dog barking in a distance. After all, she mimics the sounds just like she hears them.

No telling who I'll hear next.