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Re: Aunt Ronnie's Parrot

 

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Yep, the parakeet and I thought more understandable than the parrot but I guess that was in the ears of the listener. Funny about life; Mom is gone, Aunt Millie is gone, the real Skipper is gone, the Plumber is gone and the damn bird still lives. I think the reason for the bird¡¯s nastiness was that every customer drunk or sober coming into our kitchen just had to stick/poke their fingers thru the cage at the bird. And, the bird would draw blood if it got you good. It had a real can opener nasty beak. ?

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fay Wheeler
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 8:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [lafamigliaruggieri] Aunt Ronnie's Parrot

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That sounds familiar. I remember a bird that could say things like ¡°pretty bird¡± and ¡°go to hell¡± or some other mild cuss words.



On Feb 17, 2021, at 7:54 AM, Elaine Ruggieri <elaineruggieri@...> wrote:

?Didn¡¯t Aunt Ronnie also have a parakeet that could talk??



On Feb 16, 2021, at 11:15 PM, mother_veronica_rose <pandriole@...> wrote:

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As a little girl growing up (in the teens or 1920¡¯s) at 405 south?Union, Ronnie had a parrot given to her and its name was ¡°Loretta¡±. I guess she really liked the bird as a pet. ?Fast forward to 1967 ¨C I came down on orders for?Vietnam?and Aunt Millie gave mom the parrot to keep her ¡°busy¡± until I returned and it was named Skipper after you guessed it - Skipper. The bird entertained folks at the Jennersville store for years and was really mean. Come time for Mom to die (some 20 years later) ¨C my sister Midge didn¡¯t want the parrot and neither did I. A plumber & customer named Jim Connor from Avondale really liked the bird so at mom¡¯s death off ¡°Skipper¡± went to the plumbing shop. The last time I saw the bird was in the plumber¡¯s shop & it had a grease smear right straight down the middle of its yellow head. I lost track of the bird after that and sometime after I worked for the county (2001-2014) I ran into one of the plumber¡¯s sons and He ¨C the son ¨C still had the parrot. It was a miserable nasty bird & perhaps that explains the long life. According to some accounts those Amazons can live a very long life. It was a very young bird when Aunt Millie gave it to Mom and if still living would only be very early sixties. I¡¯m told if they don¡¯t take sick, they will live longer than that. Randy ¨C even today ¨C people that remember the Store ¨C remember Skipper. Some folks swore it could talk a little & loved it ¨C other people hated it because of its disposition. Randy, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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From:?[email protected]?[mailto:[email protected]]?On Behalf Of?Rand
Sent:?Tuesday, February 16, 2021 9:46 PM
To:?[email protected]
Subject:?[lafamigliaruggieri] Aunt Ronnie's Parrot

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some of us "younger" cousins have been remembering all kind of fond memories about our wonderful family.

One question that we had was: What became of that darn parrot?

Thanks
Randy?

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