The bird was right to draw blood from such hecklers. Do you have a photo, Paul?
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On Feb 17, 2021, at 2:28 PM, mother_veronica_rose <
pandriole@...> wrote:
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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That sounds familiar. I remember a bird that could say things like ¡°pretty bird¡± and ¡°go to hell¡± or some other mild cuss words.
?Didn¡¯t Aunt Ronnie also have a parakeet that could talk??
On Feb 16, 2021, at 11:15 PM, mother_veronica_rose <pandriole@...> wrote: ?
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.
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
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