Bird Watching at the Snack Bar

While eating a snowcone at the Recreation Station swimming pool snack bar, Miss M made some keen observations about birds.

 Miss M: I think that I would like to be a bird because they get to eat things off of the ground.

Mom: You think you would like to eat things off of the ground.

Miss M: Birds also don't have to take showers or baths.

Mom: Actually, birds really like to take baths in puddles and bird baths.  That's why people sometimes put bird baths in their gardens.

Miss M: Well, they don't take showers.

Mom: That's true.  What else do birds do?

Miss M: They fly.

Mom: Would you like to be able to fly like a bird?

Miss M: I already can because I'm a witch.  I really am.  I fly on a broom. 

Mom: Yes, but birds don't need a broom.  They just flap their wings.

Miss M: But birds actually have shorter lives than we do.  So, I think I don't want to be a bird.

With that, Miss M shoo-ed the birds away from our table because they were bothering her sister, and started chasing after a "lizard" that turned out to be a chipmunk.