A man bought a very expensive parrot.  He spoke to it nicely, hoping the bird would start to talk.  Every morning he would pass the cage and cheerfully call out, “Good morning. How are you?”

The bird did not respond at all.  Sometimes it would even look away when it saw the man coming.

After several weeks, the man was discouraged.  One day he walked by the cage without saying anything. The bird looked at him and said, “Well, what’s wrong with you this morning?”