A few years ago I was working a small park, where they were having an Indian "pow-wow", complete with full native american garb. The group was dancing, beating drums to a tempo that was all but deafening, even with earphones on.
I was swinging near a small stream, when a Native American Chief walked up, dressed to the nines with his eagle headdress, deer skin clothes, right down to the boots made of buffalo skins. We chatted for a bit and as I was starting to bend over to retrieve a coin he poined up and smiled.
"Would you look at that, a bald eagle!"
This bird was sitting in the tree right above us, looking out over the stream, looking for a meal. As I glanced up, the eagle lifted his tail feathers and took the biggest dump I've ever seen any bird take. Like a deer in the headlights I froze as this large pile of dung shot stright down, hitting me square in the face, blinding me.
I choked out "Holy Sh!!," threw everything down and stumbled backwards into the swift moving stream. I was thankful it was summer, and the stream wasn't all that deep, but no matter how much water ran over me I could still taste the poo in my mouth. Tasted a bit like dead squirell and fish at the time, mixed with a few berries.
Trust me when I say it was not a pleasent meal.
After washing the eagle poo off my face, neck, shoulders, chest and arms and spitting out at least a gallon of stream water out of my mouth I stood to stare back up at the eagle, who just screamed ( I still say he laughed) before taking flight.
The chief stared at me for a moment while I stood there in the middle of the stream dripping wet. Shrugging his shoulders he says, "You've just been blessed by Mother Natures most sacred creatures. But in these old eyes, all I can really say is "Sh!! happens!"
With that said he turned, and walked away. I'm not sure but I swear for the first time that day the drums stopped beating and everything went silent. The wife says my ears were just plugged with water.
Me, I say everyone there was waiting to hear what wisdom their chief had to say.
To this day when someone says, "Look there..." I simple look down and quickly walk away.