what are the chances?...

so as i was walking home from the grocery store the other morning, when all of a sudden....



a HUGE pigeon LANDED ON MY HEAD.

i shit you not. claws in my hair.

it stayed on my head for about a second and a half during which time i screamed (not a terrified scream, just a "what the hell! there's a pigeon on my head!" sort of scream), and then it flew off.

seriously. can you imagine a bird on your head?! Of all the places in the park, this large pigeon decides that the top of my head looks like the most appropiate place to land...

A gardener standing behind me saw the whole thing and started shouting all these things in Hebrew. Too bad I don't understand. I think he was in shock as well. We both laughed. And then he told me to run (this I understood thanks to rugby).

in israel they say that if you get pooped on by a bird, it's good luck because the chances of bird poop landing on you from the air is so low that if it happens, it's a good sign. i wonder what the chances of bird landings on heads is. i'm going to bet it's pretty fucking low. so in conclusion, i must be very lucky.

what a crazy start to a day.