The only thing to fear is fear itself...

Yeah right! Those of you at home know how terrified I am of birds! I'm sure you will all (esp my family) get a good laugh out of this. I realize how irrational this is but my heart has just now stop pounding. This all happened on my walk home from class. I'm walking down the street toward this cute antique store and there is a bird sitting on the pavement. As I am probably 5 feet away from this guy, he starts flying, hits the window of this store and flys directly towards me. Luckily for me he got air really fast and didn't hit me. I tried really hard not to panic because I didn't want to make a spectical of myself. Then I'm walking across the piazza de santa croce recovering from the before mention incident. Then from across the piazza an entire FLOCK of birds decided that they were just gonna start flying with absolutely no consideration of the large amount of people in the piazza. And I just HAPPENED to be in their direct line of take off!!!! So obviously I freeze, through my hands up a little, and hope they don't touch me. By the way, these are nasty nasty pigeons! Needless to say that was a very terrifying 10 minutes in my life that I never want to relive!!