Please Do Not Disturb the Animals

This morning, the most wonderful thing happened on a bus carrying my dear friend Miss Kewl. As the bus crept through morning traffic, it passed a car going in the opposite direction carrying an acquaintance of the woman in front of her. In a city this size, that's quite the coincidence, and the woman on the bus was duly impressed and excited. Rather than waving or gesturing wildly as Miss Kewl or myself (or, please tell me, you) would have done, the woman tapped on the window. The bus window. She tapped on the inside of the bus window in order to catch the attention of someone in a completely different vehicle traveling the opposite direction on a busy street in the middle of rush hour. Now, my science may be a little rusty, but I do know that the decible level outdoors was vastly higher than that inside the bus, and a noise as tiny as the tapping would never survive that din to make itself known against the driver's side window of that passenger car. That one I'm pretty sure of.

Needless to say, her gesture went unnoticed to everyone in the city other than a few fellow passengers on the bus.

Undaunted, she whipped out her Blackberry and immediately began emailing said acquaintence to let them know she had just seen them.

This little incident struck Miss Kewl at the time, and Miss Ossim upon recounting, as a bit of a reverse-zoo. Here, the bird was tapping on her own cage to get the attention of one milling about outside, rather than the other way around. In fact, it was very much like a bird tapping at the wall of her enclosure, trying to get the attention of a fish in an aquarium on the other side of the building. Good luck with that. Let me know how that works out for you. And in the meantime, please refrain from tapping on the glass, as it upsets the animals and they refuse to mate.