Located on 800 N. in Provo, just down the street from Brick Oven, is a famous duck pond. It mostly gets its fame from all the couples who like to go have a romantic sit (a.k.a make out) around the pretty disgusting looking mud hole. The only reall cool thing about this duck pond are the ducks (and the turtles, but then I would have had to say 'the only really cool thingS' and I didn't feel like it, so I'll just talk about the ducks.) These ducks have the highest IQ out of any duck I have ever met. A few weeks ago I was crossing the street right at the duck pond. AFter I finished crossing I heard a car honk so I turned to make sure they weren't honking at me. To my surprise they were honking at a pair of ducks that decided to walk across the street using the crosswalk, instead of by flying. They stayed in between the lines the whole way across: they are so lawful.
A few weeks before that I went for an early evening run. I ran right past two ducks on a date. They were sitting next to each other under the tree far away from any of the other ducks. Good on them for realizing that the nasty pond isn't really all that romantic.
One more story, and this one is my favorite. Just this week I walked down the 150 stairs that lead right to the duck pond (I have to do this to get to and from work, that's why I see the ducks so often.) One duck passed in front of me and then proceeded to the bushes on my right. I didn't think much of it until I saw about 6 other ducks scattered, hiding, beneath this bush. The duck that crossed in front of me quickly took his seat under the bush with the other ducks. None of them were sleeping, they were just being really quite. And it hit me: They were playing sardines! The duck I saw finally found where everyone was hiding and, as the rule goes in Sardines, had to hide with them.
I won't go into detail about the duck that flew right into my shoulder while I was talking to my sister on the phone, or about the baby ducks that like to run full speed and head first into the small birds. Basically, I could watch these ducks all day long. Perhaps they were genetically altered.
2 comments:
I love that picture of the rubber ducky family. That gives me an idea...maybe you should get some rubber duckies and put them in the pond and see how the real ducks react.
Ever see any two headed ducks?
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