You know those Easter Eggs that look exactly like a real bird egg? I saw one on the ground today while walking to work. Sort of late for Easter, it must have been part of a leftover stash.
I have a terrible sweet tooth, and I would consider eating candy I find on the ground. I picked the egg up, and squeezed it a little to see what kind it was. But it turned out it was a real egg. It cracked in my hands and made a mess; I killed a unborn baby chick. That sucks; I felt bad about that. Namu Amida butsu.
Although, not to rationalize or anything, but who lays an egg on the ground, not even in a nest? How did it get there? There weren’t even any trees around. Maybe a pigeon? They lay eggs in stupid places I hear. Unless “mom” intended to sit on it in the middle of an open dirt pile totally unprotected from cats or the elements, I’m thinking junior was pretty much doomed.
Still a bummer though.