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Ahmmmmmmmmmm
reminds me of a story.
When I was a pre teen, we moved to San Jose, CA, dad fresh out of the Air Force, got a job at United Airlines as a jet mech..and he commuted to SF Airport.
This seperated DH & I who grew up together up until this point, and DH a year older, got his Driver's license & still came a courtin' and went horse back riding with me, and from there came the story where I tried to kill him with a horse some of you may have heard...
Anyway, I had my horses stabled at a small "ranch" of about 10 acress at the end of our housing tract..holding on before the rush of humanity hit Saratoga & Los Gatos, CA.
On the ranch were a few chickens who no one cared for, including a cock bird of unknown ancestry.
I rode my horse home (right down the tract street) one day & brought him home with me...along with several hens.
We built an aviary in the backyard and he & his girls were there off the patio.
Then I discovered my cock bird was the discussion of all parents in the neighborhood, not due to his crows, but due to the early morning "coffee clatches" and 5 PM "tini times" that my parents had, in which all the mothers would come visit my Mom, and have coffee & gossip after the men went to work, or, at "tini" time, it was all of them coming to have cocktails at 5.
My Mother had named the cock bird "Rose Pierre" and then hens all had names too...and one day, not at school, I saw the women in the morning all gather for coffee & go out on the patio & feed Rose Pierre coffee...they loved him!
They all brought treats for them.
Then at 5 PM, more neighbors came for coktails, and sure enough I spied that they were giving Rose Pierre martinis, made with Vodka, stirred, not shaken, with a twist of lemon zest.........the bird was a drunk!
he could barely walk & everyone was hysterical.
You could hear their wails of laughter for a few blocks.
I was very upset that the adults were laughing at the expense of my beautiful cock bird...
so I took him to rehome him.
Darn parents.
Oh my Gosh!! That's funny!!
all the drunks needed another drunk to drink with!! LOL!! Poor kid!! Glad he found a new home!!! The things people do for entertainment!!!