Mailbox problem

You might not know this, but I hate birds. They are dangerous, wild, & very unpredictable. In 9th grade, I participated in a fiction film class with Mr. Kane. For the most part, we watched older movies & one of them was The Birds, by Alfred Hitchcock. Some parts were humorous but I believe the movie escalated my fear of these awful animals. Yesterday's incident didn't help either.

As I was driving home, I stopped at the mailbox to obviously retreive the mail. My parent's mailbox has a small shelf under the door where mail is delivered. I noticed there were a few branches under there & suddenly a small, brown bird flies iradicatly out of the shelf. I screamed bloody murder & tried to protect my head incase the bird got into my car. After a few seconds, I looked up & realized I had not been hurt, just scared to death. I figured it was just a freak accident & the bird would never fly back there, because I probably scared him too. Therefore, today, I drove up slowly & much farther away & of course, the damn bird bursted out of the mailbox shelf. Fortunately for the bird, I don't want to move his home elsewhere because it is a safe & dry place for him. But I think Mark will be getting the mail from now on....