The Nokia Parrot

This parrot did something I had never seen done before. It used to belong to Danny and Sirkku's ex-neighbors. I once walked past their yard and heard a mobile phone ring. You know, the cheesy Nokia tune: “Te-de-dee-dee, te-de-dee-dee, te-de-dee-dee-deee”? I looked around but didn't see anybody. Then I heard a bellowing laughter: “Ha-ha-ha-ha!!” It was the parrot. You see, it had learned to mimic the ring tone of the (Finnish) family's phones. A few times a family member would mistake the parrot's song for the real thing, and would try to answer their phone. Other family members would notice the blunder and ... begin to laugh. Then the parrot would, in turn, mimic the laughter.

A pattern had formed. A Finn would walk by, the parrot would “call” them on the phone, the Finn would try to answer it, the parrot (seemingly on purpose, just to be spiteful) would then fall into a roaring laughter. More than one guest has looked at the parrot with a suspicious eye afterwards.