Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A new movie!
Okay. So here's the story...

Strange things happen at college, that's for sure. The one that happened to me was probably one of the most strange, since it didn't involve alcohol or drugs. It did, however, involve chickens.

Well, one chicken. A very persistent one.

I'm was coming out of my literature class. It was 8:30 at night, maybe a little later, and it was a bit of a walk to get to my car. I crossed a half a dozen other parking lots before I got to where my car was parked. I was a few yards away from my car, when I heard a quiet little noise, something like

"Bk-bk-bk bk bk"

Maybe twelve feet away, a small creature is coming towards me, making these noises.

I stop and look. Yes, it's a chicken.

Now, I park rather close to a highway, and I'm very fond of animals. I didn't want the chicken to get squished. So I called up my friend Britty, who keeps chickens, and I ask if she wanted another one.

While I was on the phone the chicken hopped onto the hood of my car. Darned if I know why it liked my car so much. Britty said she couldn't take a strange chicken, because the others would peck it to death. She and her sister suggest I shoo the chicken off the car and just be on my way, and wish it the best of luck.

I got in the car and started it, hoping the noise would scare the chicken off. It didn't. I got out and attempted to physically shoo the chicken off my car. I reached toward it, and it shuffles across to the driver's side. I leaned further over, and it finally hopped down. Mission accomplished.

I then circled back around the car just in time to see the chicken hop into the driver's side seat. I shouldn't have left the door open, I guess, but how was I to know the chicken was gonna jump in?

The chicken settled itself on my emergency brake and sat there, seemingly quite happy.

By now, the humor of the situation was really getting to me. I carefully sat down in the driver's seat and closed the door. The chicken didn't seem to mind me being so close to it. It even let me pet it! I had to tell someone, so I called my parents, who laughed their arses off after finally deciding to believe me, and then I call Mindy, who practically exploded.

"There's a chicken in your car?! Why do you have a chicken in your car when you're supposed to be in class?!"

After which she took my point of view, of not wanting it to get hurt. Unfortunately, my parents had already told me to shoo it away as well, and I was afraid they'd be upset if I came home with it after that. So I was left with the problem- what now?

In the end, I decided that I could probably drive further into the campus to release the chicken. The chicken hopped onto my dashboard as I started the car and it sat very calmy off to the side while I drove around campus, looking for a nice, chicken-friendly area away from highways to let the thing go in.

After passing the field with the huge white cat in it, I parked and tried to pick the chicken up. It didn't seem to mind until its feet came off the ground, at which point it freaked and got away from me. It fluttered into my backseat, so I crawled in and tried gently shooing the chicken out. At one point it almost fell out, but then it jumped back in and settled itself under me (I was leaning over toward the opposite door).

I felt so bad for it. It was pretty cold outside, and I didn't blame if for not wanting to spend the night in the cold with the cats near a highway. Still, I eventually got it out of the car. I closed all the doors and started to back out of my parking spot before I realized I couldn't see the chicken.

I got out (being sure to close the door this time) looked around my car. Sure enough, the thing was sitting dead center behind my car. It probably would have let me back over it, too. I chased the thing around to the front of the car, got back in, and started to back out again. This time, it tried to jump back onto the hood. It didn't quite make it, and landed with an annoyed, "Brawk!"

I finally drove away, and the last I saw, it was wandering rather forlornly in the parking lot (it completely ignored the grass and the trees it could have taken shelter in). Left me feeling rather guilty...

Still, it was one of the strangest things that's happened to me. A chicken climbs on my hood, invades my car, and refuses to leave until absolutely forced. And I'm nowhere near a farm- besides, it wasn't really a farm chicken, I think. It was brownish, not white, and way too tame. Whatever the case, I hope it's alright ^^;;

Bizarre...

(BTW, the movie I alluded to in the post title would be "Chicken in a Car". Sorta like "Snakes in a Plane" but not ^_~)
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