They Knew The Time

And my father and I used to feed the crows, you know, in India while I was growing up. And there's a very fun story that, you know, the first house that we used to live in, it was an apartment. And so we used to have terraces, you know, we could go to the terrace and so the crows, you know, had babies.

And so every time somebody was going to the terrace, they would come and peck people on their head. And so people were actually climbing with umbrellas, but they never did anything to me and my father. We would just go up and down and people would get so pissed off because they had to use a different route to get to the terrace because there were like two, three routes to get to the terrace.

So they started taking the other stairs to go to the terrace, but we could just go. They wouldn't do anything because they were sure that we would not, you know, harm the babies or hurt the babies in any way. So that was fun.

And they always used to have, you know, food from us. It never, their beaks never touched our hands, you know. They would take it all gently.

It was amazing. It was amazing. And then once I left India, my father continued to, you know, we moved to another place, but my father continued to do that.

And they knew the time of, you know, when he used to eat lunch. So they would come exactly at that time and they would wait, not make noise, but you would see them outside the kitchen. So my father would finish his lunch and he would come.