The Dead Parrot

[Golfbum]

The Dead Parrot





At dawn the telephone rings.
"Hello, Mr. Humphrey? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house"
"Ah yes Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"
"Um, I am just calling to advise you, sir, that your parrot died"
"My parrot? Dead? The one that won the international competition?"
"Yes, that's the one."
"Damn! That's a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird.
What did he die from?"
"From eating rotten meat."
"Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?"
"Nobody, he ate the meat from one of the dead horses."
"Dead horse? What dead horse?"
"The thouroughbred, Mr. Lucky. He died from all that work pulling the water cart."
"Are you insane? What water cart?"
The one we used to put out the fire."
"Good Lord! What fire are you talking about?"
"The one at your house! A candle fell ond the curtains caught on fire."
"What the.....!!!! But there's electricity at the house!!!
What was the candle for?"
"For the funeral."
"WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL?"
"Your mother's.... she showed up one night out of the blue and I thought she was a thief.
So I hit her with your new "Taylor Made r7 Quad Driver."

SILENCE

"Ernesto, if you broke that f @*king driver you're fired"

[Chieflongtee]

excellent.

[faldo]

My response EXACTLY....