Our latest adventures have involved quite a lot of travel. Of course that's no problem for Otis. He is, after all, an owl. But it has proven problematic for me; in particular because we seem to loose each other quite a bit when out and about. I had been telling Otis to acquire a sat nav, but he still can't get his head around the concept of invisible information. We haven't broached the topic of thoughts yet.
Anyway, so there was one particular incident where I was on the coach going somewhere, and I was reading away, when I happen to look out of the window, and there was Otis, perched on the rooftop of a car on the motorway, with his tail in the head, looking into the car. I think the people in the car must have got quite a fright, as they were banging on the window and seemed to be shouting at him. And then Otis somehow fell off the car and fell into a bush and that was the last I saw of him, right through my entire trip and all the way back too.
Until tonight, when I found him in a tree near Tesco's. I was doing my regular shop, when I happened to come across him with some of his new mates in the tree (he says he understands the Scottish banter a lot better than pigeon banter). Surprised, I asked him where on earth he had been. He replied in his usual smug manner that he had been looking for me but I had nearly killed him and left him in a bush to die!!! We exchanged a few more slightly unpleasant vocabulary before I went on my way and he continued perching on his high tree.
As far as I am aware, he is still there now, no doubt rejoicing in the fact that he thinks rid of me. But I have in mind to go tell him a thing or two tomorrow. Such owlness is just fowl and I will stand it no longer. If anyone reading this witnessed these recent events, please get in touch, as I am creating a folder of the 'Otis out' sort. Not the type that gets rid of him, just the one that enquires after his intellect and provides a little intervention to sort some of his problems out. I would miss him terribly if he were to completely disappear. Besides, there's still the concept of thoughts to talk about ...
