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people who deliver or install things to people 's houses. what kind of odd things have you seen? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 months ago by POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 88 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don't any more but I used to.

The one that comes to mind was an elderly lady who got into some kind of finch-type bird (canaries maybe) instead of cats. She had obviously been letting them breed because there was flock of about 40 of them in the house, all flying together from one piece of furniture to the next.

I found it pretty alarming to begin with but after half an hour or so I could appreciate the beauty of it.

Plenty of bird shit in places though.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I found it pretty alarming to begin with but after half an hour or so I could appreciate the beauty of it.

Unexpected wholesome twist. I was expecting floors rotted through with shit or dead ones in corners.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did she have a procedure for dealing with people coming in and out of doors? I’d be terrified one would make a run for it!

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't remember... They might have been institutionalised and afraid of the outside world anyway though! We had that with some chickens once after they spent a long time in an enclosure. All the baby ones came out flapping their wings and running around but the grownup ones were scared to come out.

[–] Facky@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was it fairly clean other than the bird shit or...?

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, considering that she was pretty old and living alone with a load of birds it wasn't too bad!