Seen at the grocery store earlier this week -

[KitchenWitch]

A guy walking around the store with a domesticated bird on his shoulder. Do not get me wrong, I am not bird bashing, but wouldn't it be against health codes to be in a grocery store with a bird?

[ohiosmith]

1. Yes. Filthy buggers. Or should that be filthy budgies?

[Hugin]

2. Maybe it wasn't his bird...

I have a true life story about this... But, I'm too lazy to write it up at the moment. ;)

[KitchenWitch]

3. LOL - I am pretty sure it was his bird!

:hi:

[styersc]

4. Could have been his dinner.

Maybe you just failed to see the "fresh fowl" display.

[Parche]

5. Bird

What was a guy flipping his bird doing in a store with women and children?


:shrug: :shrug: :hi:

[AllegroRondo]

6. it would be against the health code, unless its an assistance animal

like a guide dog.

[Hugin]

7. Maybe it was a "Fresh Checker"?

I wonder if I could get a prescription for one of those?

[KitchenWitch]

10. This bird did not have a backpack on!

Pretty sure it was not an assistance animal!

:rofl:

[Miss Marmelstein]

8. Just be glad.....

he wasn't wearing a budgie smuggler!



:bounce: :bounce:

[Throwing Stones]

9. Arrrr, maybe a pirate him be? n/t

[Sequoia]

11. That was me.

I've done it before with my little parakeet. Then again, I'm not a guy so it wasn't me. Just what store are you talking about?

[KitchenWitch]

12. Albertsons

[Sequoia]

18. No, Safeway for me...but I had to leave.

"You can't have that bird in here, what about the children!!!!"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. I've seen sparrows get in the grocery stores near me...

And you know they'll peck the hell out of the tomatoes if they get the chance!

[supernova]

17. We have house wrens at Costco and BJs

:rofl: They mostly stay in the rafters. I think they think it's just a big grey forrest. :P

It's almost impossible to keep them out since they keep their loading bay doors open all day.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Once, in a Home Despot , I saw a sparrow feasting on birdseed

Yeah! Go sparrow!!!

[KitchenWitch]

25. I thought I was the only one who called it "Home Despot"

:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Really? I thought everybody called it that!

:toast:

[KitchenWitch]

27. I have a better one

Back in Minnesota there was a chain of stores called "Paper Warehouse", I called them "Paper Whorehouse" all the time.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

28. LOL!

Someone here on DU was telling their friend's name for Whole Foods...Whole Wallet.

[bigwillq]

14. I would think so.

He should've left the bird at home. I love animals but I am not a big fan of people bringing their pets in public places.

[Deja Q]

15. Was the bird wearing a diaper?

http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/suppliesgeneral/gr/prflightsuit.htm

Try to get it on the bird without it freaking out... or it eating the fabric, as birds are wont to do...

[Shine]

16. You'd think so...

:eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

19. Precisely how I thought about it!

[skygazer]

20. We have people bring their obnoxious little Paris Hilton dogs in the store

And nobody wants to offend them by telling them to get out so they walk around with the thing in the baby seat of the cart and half the time wind up shitting on it.

So some poor bagger has to clean shit out of a shopping cart (as well as the trail that goes all over the store) and the next person to put their kid in the cart has no idea what was just there. :puke:

People are not the most considerate species.



You know, I considered editing this because it kinda sounds like the customer shits in the cart but that makes me laugh so I'm leaving it that way. :rofl:

[Robeson]

22. The thing I've always wondered about owning birds, and maybe the...

...bird owners could help me here in case I'm wrong. But don't they crap where ever and when ever they want? :shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

23. I was thinking the same thing.

It is not like you can litter box train a bird.

[idgiehkt]

24. don't you know about birds for the hard of hearing?

It listens to what people say and then whispers it into his ear.

[KitchenWitch]

29. Honestly? I have never heard of that.

:hi:

[NV Whino]

30. OMG has Peter Menen moved to your neck of the woods?

Our (now retired) postmaster used to bring his bird to work. He walked around all day (all over town, in fact) with it on his shoulder. Peter, himself, was always barefoot.

And, yes, this is Peter Menen of the deodorant Menens. (Mennens?) Peter, rather than sitting back and clipping coupons as it were, decided he wanted to do something useful. So he came to St. Helena and became the postmaster there for 20+ years. Haven't seen him recently and I have wondered where he had got himself off to. A firm Dem and liberal, by the way. Marched with him in the early peace parades in SF.

(No, he didn't take his bird to the marches.)

[cynatnite]

31. They could be quite handy in a grocery store crunch...

You're at check out and realize you forgot the cereal or something. Send him on his way. Or perhaps for that hard-to-reach item. Could also have him test the seafood, too.