George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He liked to talk to trees, butterflies, and birds.
There usually weren’t all that many trees and butterflies on the ocean, but one of his shipmates had a parrot companion.
George would talk to the parrot as if it were a person, and they’d have long conversations.
When the owner of the parrot would try to walk away, George growled “Don’t interrupt our conversation!”
The parrot’s owner tried to give the parrot to George as a gift, but George refused.
“Why would I want all that hassle?” said George.