smh.

me:  Did I hear you say Carole is getting married?

my mom:  Yeah but I don't think we'll go to the wedding.  We went to her first wedding.  With the dead dove.

me:  What?

my mom:  I didn't tell you about that?  After the wedding they released a dove.  Except when they released it, it went in the air for a second then crashed to the ground.  I couldn't look but I think it was dead.

me:  That's not good.

my mom:  No.  I think everyone thought it was a bad omen but nobody wanted to say it out loud.  I guess we were right.  Or maybe the marriage didn't work because he was an ex-con she had met a few weeks before the wedding.  But a dead dove at your wedding is never a good thing.