Man, work has been bitch-ass busy, or if you want to get scientific about it, it’s been two metric cubits of business on the Bitch-ass/Depardieu Continuum. Yesterday, it was literally one thing after another. I had a customer waiting for me in the lobby when my boss busted in and started jabbering away and the phone started ringing as I was responding to an urgent email from another client. It’s moments like those when I want to kick my computer off my desk Office Space-style and walk out the goddamned door. (Why are there a million recreations of the printer scene on You Tube? Getting a fucking life people, Jesus. Your mom is tired of scrubbing Cheetos stains out of your tighty-whities.)
It just got so fucking bonkers that I left to take a walk and after getting about a hundred feet from the office I heard this ridiculous noise coming from the sky above me. There was a hawk circling slowly over a small wooded area and two crows were making all the racket while dive-bombing the hawk. One crow would fly just out of the hawk’s reach while the other crow would fly up into the air a bit higher before turning back on the hawk and plunging towards it as fast as it could go. The hawk would bank away from the diving crow and the two crows would regroup and trade rolls before recreating the whole event.
I walked and watched them do this for about 5 minutes when another hawk appeared in the distance and looked like he was about to flank the crows. Somehow the crows sensed what was happening and it broke into a full-on dogfight. Both crows and both hawks swooped and dove and attempted to drive the other species out the local airspace. Eventually the crows forced the hawks apart and divided they were no match for the crows. The crows had better maneuverability and the hawks just couldn’t compete. It was like watching TIE fighters take on a Calamari Cruiser, they couldn’t beat it, but they could fly circles around it.
In the end the hawks were forced off, and the crows flew back to the small wooded area. It was pretty badass, and I was ready to go back into work.
