Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Macawfee / Café Guacamayo Azul

WHILE WAITING FOR our favorite chiringuito, closed for winter break, to reopen across the street in February, and after trying a few other local places, we've been going to another nearby café we used to frequent. The other morning, a man came in with his pet macaw. Sweet bird, but I have a feeling his presence there would not meet health code. Besides, the entire scene broke my heart a little. I've now written off a few cafés — bad coffee, bad service, English owners with no respect for Spaniards ... or for their employees. Maybe it's time to buy a coffee maker. But that would mean I might have to "cook."

MIENTRAS ESPERÁBAMOS QUE nuestro chiringuito favorito, cerrado por las vacaciones de invierno, volviera a abrir en febrero, y después de probar algunos otros lugares locales, fuimos a otro café cercano que solíamos frecuentar. La otra mañana, un hombre entró con su guacamaya mascota. Dulce ave, pero tengo la sensación de que su presencia allí no cumpliría las normas sanitarias. Además, toda la escena rompió mi corazón un poco. Ahora hay algunos cafés que ya no voy a visitar: café malo, mal servicio, propietarios ingleses sin respeto por los españoles ... o por sus empleados. Tal vez es hora de comprar una cafetera. Pero eso significaría que podría tener que "cocinar."





AFTER HE GNAWED AT THE BASKET AND SUGAR PACKETS.
DESPUÉS DE MASTICAR LA CANASTA Y LOS PAQUETES DE AZÚCAR.
AFTER HIS TAIL BRUSHED ACROSS THE COMMUNAL BUTTER PLATE.
DESPUÉS DE QUE SU COLA ROZÓ EL PLATO DE MANTEQUILLA COMÚN.
BEFORE THE WAITER BECAME UNCOMFORTABLE, AND THE BIRD FLEW OUT THE DOOR AND WAS CHASED DOWN THE STREET.
ANTES DE QUE EL CAMARERO SE SINTIERA INCÓMODO, Y EL AVE VOLVÓ POR LA PUERTA Y FUE ATRAPADO EN UN PARQUE.
LEFT ALONE WHILE HIS OWNER WENT OUT FOR A SMOKE.
SE QUEDÓ SOLO MIENTRAS SU DUEÑO SALÍA A FUMAR.
AT LEAST HE DIDN'T POOP ON THE COUNTER.
AL MENOS NO HIZO CACA EN LA ENCIMERA.

24 comments:

  1. "lovely bird; beautiful plumage!" - said in a monty python voice

    but EW EW EW! in a restaurant!

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    1. anne marie:
      Yeah, that's what we thought. And it was clearly not deceased... thankfully.

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  2. Fabulous feather-pet. I trust it's been house-trained. (Bet it's a noisy little chatterbox!)

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    1. Raybeard:
      I think it must be fairly young. But it was already getting a bit noisy. It did chatter quite a bit and got very loud at one point.

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  3. hohoho
    It took a minute for me to connect the dots and enjoy the title
    Bad cafes would not last a week here in AZ as amateur critics would execrate them on Yelp.

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    1. Spo:
      The critics are very different here. But then just about everyplace serves coffee in addition to whatever food they have.

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  4. pet owners who bring them places they shouldn't usually have little respect for their animals. I would never have left my dog alone while taking her out anyway regardless of her obedience to commands and training. I saw a dog have a panic attack after its owner went to go out to his car to get something.

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    1. Adam:
      That was the feeling I had. This guy clearly loved the macaw, showed it lots of affection, but I thought it was a lack of respect, too.

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  5. Oh how terribly embarrassing is that about the English or would be if I felt at all English. For after many years of absence from that niggardly isle and mainly because of their ignorant behaviour to my partner, we no longer visit.

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    1. Heron:
      It can be very angering. Obviously, not everyone is like that, but it's much more common than I'd like to see.

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  6. Poor bird....too bad it wasn't released while the owner was outside!!

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    1. Jim:
      I had a hard time seeing it, no matter how much affection the owner showed it.

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  7. If you buy a coffee maker, I'll get you some delicious Cuban coffee😉 Hoe about this reward for "cooking" 😁

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    1. Lina:
      And then you need to come up every morning and make the coffee!!!

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  8. It's a beautiful bird, but I don't think it belongs in a restaurant.

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    1. Stephen:
      Ditto. I'm often stunned by what restaurant staff and honors think is acceptable.

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  9. The worst part is that macaws are wild animals and should not be pets, much less be taken into a restaurant. These birds live for a long time and I imagine this one has imprinted on its "owner". There is a fair amount of illegal parrot trade in my part of the world and it is heart-breaking; nests are raided to grab young birds before they have fledged and many die in the process. A gorgeous bird and it looks healthy, so at least his owner seems to take care of it. Sad, never-the-less.

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    1. Wilma:
      We had a hand-reared Yellow-naped Amazon parrot (that WE hand-reared). It came from a breeder in Washington, D.C. and we got it when it was 11 weeks old. I loved that bird but I would never, ever have an exotic bird as a pet again... unless it was a rescue.

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  10. That chain is pretty sad.
    The tail-swooshed butter is pretty sad, too ;)

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