I have been familiar with peacocks all my life and all I have ever seen them doing is preening themselves and showing off while moving very slowly and deliberately so you are forced to notice them. So I have over the years, assumed without ever looking into it, that a peacock though absolutely beautiful, is a flightless bird like the penguin or ostrich.
Recently I was walking on the road in Salem, St. Ann and hearing some strange sounds above, looked up curiously, only to see a pair of peacocks comfortably lounging on a light post and conversing with one another, very loudly.
That really gave me a rude awakening and a stark reminder of the wisdom my grandmother tried to drum into my head for years with these words; "Never assume anything, for assume really means means making an ass of you and me."
Yup. No matter how old I get, I am always reminded that life is all about living and learning new things every day.
That really gave me a rude awakening and a stark reminder of the wisdom my grandmother tried to drum into my head for years with these words; "Never assume anything, for assume really means means making an ass of you and me."
Yup. No matter how old I get, I am always reminded that life is all about living and learning new things every day.
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