Sitting duck

Life in Camboinhas is pretty much a funny one, how many of you opened your kitchen doors and stared at a duck looking back at you? None, probably.  I soon found out that there is a duck pond near my condo, in which  ducks swim free, and fly free as well.  Now, I wonder, what seeing a duck means? Well, naturally all of us are acquainted with the many duck-word idioms and all of their foul meanings… I have to confess that I was remembering what a friend of mine told me about, oh well, when I opened the door and saw that huge duck with a very weird wrinkled red head (Brazilian wild duck, really, not even close to the beautiful greenish American one) and that feeling of something that has little or no effect (yeah yeah, water off a duck’s back!), that is, no importance at all…. or of a sitting duck…. idiotic and easy to catch ….. man, that duck was ugly!!!!! Needless to say that my dog was dead scared and just got closer to the duck when I lifted her in my arms and took the baby close to the duck, her heart was racing like mad, lol…. but she finally found the guts to scare the hideous duck away – apparently a lot of beings who are/were around me are very afraid of the unknown, or of something that seems to be bigger/stronger than he/she – just facing this unknown with some or a lot of help from their friends.

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