Young John received a parrot as a gift. Unfortunately, the parrot had a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious and chock full of profanity.

Poor John tried and tried to modify the bird’s attitude by using only nice, polite words, playing soft music, and anything else he could think of to clean up the bird’s potty mouth.

After a few weeks John got fed up and yelled at the parrot. The parrot, of course, yelled back. He grabbed and shook the parrot but the foul bird got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, took the squawking bird, tossed him into the freezer, and slammed the door.

Well, for a few minutes the parrot kicked and screamed and cussed up blue streak. Then suddenly there was complete silence. John heard not a peep for a couple minutes. Now fearing that he’d hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer.

The parrot calmly stepped out onto John’s outstretched arms and said “I believe I may have offended you with my foul language and rude actions. I’m quite sorry for my inappropriate attitude and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.”

John was shocked at the change in the bird’s demeanor. Just as he was about to ask the parrot what had caused such a dramatic change, the bird enquired, “May I ask what the turkey did?”