I'm actually crying laughing at the replies to this comic. This is one of those "What if I'm the only person who does this" comics I tentatively put out into the ether before crawling back under a rock, and yet
Bees. You also have to say "Hello, Bee," to every bee you see. (Alternatively, "Hello, friends" if in a group. Bees don't expect you to greet them individually in those circumstances.)
I suppose it doesn't count when you're not appreciative? Like when 4 AM the dawn chorus started just as I was trying to sleep, and I said "stop screaming for sex, you bastards" out loud. To myself. Should have yelled it out the window. 😁
I talk to animals (other than my dog) almost daily. Yesterday a bird was nervous about trying a new feeding station. I complimented it, beckoning it to stay, and it did! Now its whole family visits.
I talk to rabbits & squirrels in our yard in deep frustration, my dogs, and the huge number of bugs and spiders in our yard regularly. Especially spiders. I’m always asking the ladies to not make a web where I’ll accidentally destroy it.
DELIGHTFUL.😍
Back when I ran a reptile and amphib monitoring project, I would warn newbies that I would be talking to the lizards and calling them sweetie.🥰🦎
Should’ve heard me quietly encouraging a mid sized wolf spider that’d crawled up my leg and into my pocket to come out of there before it got hurt the other week 😅