WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.748 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.748 --> 00:00:01.290 align:middle line:90% "Bird Omens." 00:00:01.290 --> 00:00:03.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.810 --> 00:00:06.120 align:middle line:84% The teenager at the register remarked to a friend 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:08.340 align:middle line:84% that he'd been called cheetah, raccoon, Guinea pig 00:00:08.340 --> 00:00:10.350 align:middle line:90% and hamster that day. 00:00:10.350 --> 00:00:13.890 align:middle line:84% Thanks hamster, I said as I paid for a Coke and left. 00:00:13.890 --> 00:00:16.239 align:middle line:84% I had to get home and vacuum the yard. 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.570 align:middle line:90% It was starting to look dirty. 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:20.850 align:middle line:84% I wish I lived somewhere that smelled like fish guts, 00:00:20.850 --> 00:00:21.930 align:middle line:90% I thought. 00:00:21.930 --> 00:00:24.985 align:middle line:84% I mean, didn't smell like fish guts. 00:00:24.985 --> 00:00:26.610 align:middle line:84% I've been having trouble concentrating, 00:00:26.610 --> 00:00:28.860 align:middle line:90% so I'd taken the day off. 00:00:28.860 --> 00:00:32.280 align:middle line:84% I needed it anyway, to prepare the dinner I had planned. 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.010 align:middle line:84% My dog Jeremy fancies himself a food critic 00:00:35.010 --> 00:00:37.260 align:middle line:90% and I wanted to impress him. 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:39.210 align:middle line:84% My last meal with him was a disaster 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:41.700 align:middle line:84% as I inadvertently opened a gateway to evil while 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:43.535 align:middle line:90% cooking a meatloaf. 00:00:43.535 --> 00:00:45.660 align:middle line:84% But how are you supposed to know you're not in love 00:00:45.660 --> 00:00:47.610 align:middle line:90% when you think you are? 00:00:47.610 --> 00:00:50.550 align:middle line:84% I bet it's like invisible hands take one side of your face 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:52.770 align:middle line:90% and push it toward the other. 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:56.500 align:middle line:84% I know there's a bird omen for it, but I can't remember it. 00:00:56.500 --> 00:00:57.000 align:middle line:90%