One night, a woman’s dishwasher breaks down, so she gets straight on the phone to a repairman. Since she has to go to work the next day, she tells him, “I’ll leave the key under the doormat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter and I’ll send you a cheque in the post. Oh, by the way don’t worry about my bulldog He won’t bother you. But whatever you do, do not, under and circumstances , talk to my parrot. I repeat , do not talk to my parrot.”
When the repairman arrives at the woman’s apartment the following day, he discovers the biggest, meanest-looking bulldog he’s ever seen. But, just as the woman assured, the dog just lies there on the carpet watching the repair man go about his work. The parrot, however, is driving the man nuts the whole time with his incessant name-calling. Finally the repairman can contain himself no longer and yells, “Shut up, you stupid, ugly bird!” The parrot replies, “Get him, Spike!”
