In which The King thinks they were too pretty to be escorts
Posted by Isabel on May 26th, 2010. Filed under: City Living, The King, The New House.Last night at around 11:45 I heard our doorbell ring. I woke up The King and we both got out of bed, put some clothes on and went downstairs to see what was up. I could hear people outside talking…so for some reason I wasn’t too nervous.
I looked out the window by the front door and saw two twentyish super cute gals. One was texting on her pink iphone and I couldn’t see the face of the other one. I thought it might be our single female next door neighbor. I thought maybe she was locked out of her house, or something. So I opened the door, with The King behind me.
The girl who’s face I couldn’t see saw me and CLEARLY looked freaked. She was all “we have the wrong house”.
“Yeah you do.”
And they turned and walked away. And The King and I walked back upstairs to bed.
As if this isn’t odd enough there is a twist to this story. A huge twist.
One of the girls had a live parrot on her shoulder.
A PARROT.
ON HER SHOULDER!
*
So many questions.
First off, our house looks very different from any house on our block. There is no mistaking our house for another house. No way. And yet, how did they mistake our house for someone else’s house?
Didn’t they notice our two cars in the driveway and realize they weren’t cars that belonged to friends of theirs?
Why didn’t they think anything of the fact that it probably took The King and I a couple of minutes to actually get to the door to open it? This gave them plenty of time to figure out they were at the wrong house.
Who rings the door bell of a completely dark house at 11:45? Even if you think you know the person?
Could this be a Craigslist Escort ad gone bad and how does the parrot play into that scenario?
The King and I sat in bed trying to figure this out for way too long. We just couldn’t get what the angle was on this. Were they scoping out our house to rob it later? Were they running a screen for someone else to sneak in the garage and steal all of The King’s tools?
Seriously…it’s crazy!!!
Mostly because they were two super cute and totally normal looking girls.
But really mostly because there was the whole “live parrot on her shoulder” element.
So tell me, seriously, what do you think this was all about?
*The girl was much cuter then this lady (although not as happy looking). And she wasn’t wearing a Bird Shoulder Cape that is available for purchase for a mere $16.99.
May 26th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Okay, the parrot? Is just too weird.
May 26th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Hey, escorts are people too. I think they were on their first job. And they’re UW students (you know, bad economy, etc. Plus it’d explain why they weren’t familiar with your neighborhood….
You hear that TAL about the parrot. THEY MATE FOR LIFE. You don’t leave the parrot behind. (Which is why we don’t have a parrot. I don’t want to be any bird’s “mate”. Ew.)
May 27th, 2010 at 3:26 am
Drugs? I would guess escorts, but the parrot makes that too creepy.
May 27th, 2010 at 3:30 am
I do not know, but someone really needs to make illegal to walk around with a bird on your shoulder. Especially without the smock thing. #gross
May 27th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
This is just too weird… someone actually makes and sells those shoulder capes??
As for the two girls, well, did you watch to see where they went when they left you? Maybe it was some kind of initiation thing or prank (you know, you can join our gang if you go to n’s house and then they give them a totally random address to freak them out!)
Reminds me slightly of a friend of mine who was rudely awoken one night by the front door being knocked down. (we were only 18 at the time and the rest of her family slept through the whole thing!) Anyway, she went to see what was going on and found a drunken man walking up the stairs… I would have screamed and woken my parents up but she just stood there and asked him what he was doing. Turns out that he was so drunk he thought that their house was his hotel and wondered why they had locked the door so he had broken it down to get in and it took her ages to persuade him that it was not a hotel at all but someone’s house!
So… maybe the girls were drunk?!
May 27th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
That is too funny! It’s not everyday that you see someone with a parrot on their shoulder either.
That being said, I’m highly amused by the bird cape! My roomie has two cockatiels and they sit on her shoulder sometimes… and sometimes make messes on her shoulder, if you know what I mean. I guess that cape is to make sure your clothes stay clean while your bird is hanging out with you.
May 27th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Great story.
Apparently, you’re unfamiliar with the “Jolly Roger” fetish. It’s all the craze.
May 28th, 2010 at 1:57 am
That cape is rockin’! It’s a must have for summer.
It’s all very suspect. Is there a street near you guys that has a similar name? I’m hoping for something innocent. With parrot involvement.
May 29th, 2010 at 2:52 am
Ok, that is TOTALLY bizarre.
May 29th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
A bird shoulder cape!!! That’s what I need! We have cockatiels, and they frequently poop on our shoulders! But they do NOT travel with us to ring someone’s doorbell at close to midnight. They are better trained than that.
June 1st, 2010 at 3:02 am
Maybe she SHOULD have worn the bird shoulder cape. It would really cramp her style if a bird klunked on her clothes!