{"id":130948,"date":"2017-08-24T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=130948"},"modified":"2019-01-20T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T23:14:09","slug":"tbt-strong-language-warning-but-i-am-just-quoting-what-someone-else-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=130948","title":{"rendered":"#TBT ** Strong language warning. But I am just quoting what “someone else” said. **"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHere I am in Key West, covered in parrots. In re: that white cockatoo: <\/p>\n

I was sitting on the couch of the crazy place I was staying. <\/p>\n

Tangent: “Crazy place” is an understatement. I was staying in a crack house – literally – on a quiet sleepy street. The crack house was this rambling place with patios and back porches, etc., making it seem like there was no legitimate interior. The rooms inside were filled with naked mannequins draped in beads, and they were everywhere. Not kidding. The wall was covered in colored tiles, there were wind chimes hanging everywhere. Random people went up and down the stairs with crack pipes. Don’t ask me how I came to be staying there. It’s a long story. I don’t do drugs. I don’t smoke pot, let alone smoke crack. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore – (it’s notable that it was the lack of privacy that got to me, not the drug-fest going on around me) – and I moved into a cheap Holiday Inn. Where there were no parrots). This is also the trip where a group of friendly Hooters waitresses took me under their wing. Because CLEARLY I needed it. But that’s another story.<\/p>\n

So anyway, back to the crack house. <\/p>\n

One day, I was drinking a Bloody Mary, ignoring all the foot traffic from my comfy spot on the couch, and reading a book on the collapse of Communism, because of course that’s what you do when you’re visiting Key West and staying in a crack house with a naked mannequin looming over your head. <\/p>\n

A white cockatoo, the one I’m cradling in my hands in the picture, strutted into the room. He stopped dead in his tracks, staring at me. I stared back at him. It was a standoff.<\/p>\n

The parrot then shrieked, “YOU’RE A CUNT.” <\/p>\n

It was tremendously rude and uncalled-for. We were best friends from that moment on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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