For our anniversary, our partner bought me a Minah parakeet. I didn’t believe that you could teach a parakeet to talk, although she had already gained a small vocabulary before the two of us got him. She was used to yelling, ‘Get Out!’ whenever someone came in the house. She would shout, ‘It’s that woman!’ if she heard a woman’s voice. I thought it would be fun to teach him other phrases. Within more than one years, she was saying wonderful afternoon to me and our partner, and calling us by name. When I got him to say Nevermore, I thought it was cute, unfortunately, the only time she would say Nevermore, was when the HVAC serviceman was at the house. I found this out when the HVAC serviceman came to discuss installing a current air conditioning unit. We started getting into the pricing according to efficiency and tonnage, and Bill yelled Nevermore to the HVAC serviceman. Whenever currency was mentioned, Billy yelled Nevermore. The HVAC serviceman laughed and said the two of us had a pretty smart parakeet, however our partner wasn’t laughing. She told me that if the parakeet said Nevermore one more time, she was going to be tomorrow’s lunch. She whistled and said nevermore again, however this time she meant it. She didn’t say it again while the HVAC serviceman was discussing pricing with us. Two days later, billy got out the window. The HVAC serviceman was knocking on our door, and she asked if the two of us lost something. She said she knew the parakeet was ours, because she sat on her maintenance van yelling nevermore.