A man walks into a pet shop carrying a parrot in a cage…
“I want to return this bird!” he fumes, “It won’t talk!”
The owner sighs and replies, “Sir, we guarantee all our parrots will talk, but we can’t guarantee when… “
“It’s on your sales receipt.”
Reluctantly, the man takes the bird home and decides to wait…
Every morning, the man stands in front of the cage and asks, “Can you talk?” but the parrot just stares back at him.
Frustrated but determined, he tries everything from playing recordings of other parrots talking to rewarding the bird with treats for making any sound at all…
Weeks go by, but still, the parrot remains silent, just staring back at him.
One morning, after yet another fruitless attempt to get the bird to talk, the man loses his temper…
He shouts in frustration, “Can’t you talk, you stupid bird?!”
The parrot, who has been silently observing this whole time, finally opens its mouth, looks the man straight in the eye, and yells, squawk!…