here everything's battier
The HEB in my in-laws' neighborhood has had a noisy bird problem for as long as I remember. I'll be dropping by there on the way to or from, and every time I notice the horrible squawking, and think, "Goodness! Can't they do something about that?" I've never been there that it wasn't besieged by birds screeching awfully, and usually nonstop. Several times I've heard something that sounds like a bird is stuck up there and injured badly.
Yesterday was one of those days. It was just terrible. Oppressive! Goodness! Please, please, can't they do something? I stopped Greta and we directed our attention to the rafters above the entrance, looking for the bird in question.
Then I noticed it: the speaker. A single speaker, with bird squawking emanating from it at at least 95 decibels. I finally put it together — the constant, nonstop sound, every single time I visit, no matter what time of day — it's a speaker, no doubt put there to drive away real birds who would gather and poop all over everything and drive customers mad ... by ... squawking loudly.
Yesterday was one of those days. It was just terrible. Oppressive! Goodness! Please, please, can't they do something? I stopped Greta and we directed our attention to the rafters above the entrance, looking for the bird in question.
Then I noticed it: the speaker. A single speaker, with bird squawking emanating from it at at least 95 decibels. I finally put it together — the constant, nonstop sound, every single time I visit, no matter what time of day — it's a speaker, no doubt put there to drive away real birds who would gather and poop all over everything and drive customers mad ... by ... squawking loudly.
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