The phone call with the bird rescue was scheduled, via email, for the afternoon of August 2nd, 2012, which meant I had better call my husband and let him know what I was up to. If I was seriously interested in adopting a bird, I needed to get him on board. Seriously.
I left my desk and went out to the parking lot. I called my husband on his cell, and exchanged niceties in a voice at least twice its normal speed and a few octaves higher than usual. Although I honestly wasn’t 100% sure I was ready to bring another feathered friend into our family, my actions showed that I was pretty darn close. I am deliberate in everything that I do.
I got straight to it, and in seemingly one long breath I said, “I went on petfinder.com and found a young male conure at a rescue in New Jersey and although I’m not married to the idea I really like him his name is Piper.” There was silence on the other end of the phone line but this is not unusual when you spring something on my husband, even something as innocuous as should we have green beans instead of corn tonight? I am sure that anyone watching me out their window, pacing, would have been itching to shoot me with a water gun as if I were a carnival duck.
He finally replied, “Send me the link. We can talk about it tonight.” I sheepishly responded, my pacing now exchanged for kicking a stone with my foot, never looking up from the ground, as if my husband was standing right in front of me, “I emailed the lady at the rescue this morning and she wrote right back to me and we have a phone call scheduled for this afternoon.” I was becoming an expert at cramming as many words into one long sentence as I possibly could.
More silence, followed by, “Oooooo-kay.”
We said our goodbyes after I assured him that I was just checking things out. I went back to my desk to look at Piper’s online posting one more time and to send the link to my husband. I couldn’t wait to speak to the rescue a few hours later, despite promises to myself to pull back on the reins.
To be continued . . .
Previous chapters of ‘A Love Story’:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part 4
