Scene In Hawaii: Rooster at the Shopping Center
Rooster at the Car, Investigating 21August 2009
DoT’s Thot: Roosters were a familiar sight in the Hawaiian countryside when I was little, but I never expected to see one while going to town to shop at the drug store and go to the market in the shopping center.
Scene in Hawaii: Rooster in the Shopping Center Parking Lot
While visiting in Hawaii, I decided to go to Long’s Drugs to get a few things. CVS had bought the chain and I lost the Longs in California. I miss that place because of the merchandise which was not quite so generic and ubiquitous. Here in Hawaii, it is so strongly branded that the Longs stores are being kept intact by CVS. I went to the one in the shopping center on Waialae and 4th Avenue in Honolulu.
Rooster in the Parking Lot at the Shopping Center
Rooster!
The weather was hot, so I went to find a shaded parking spot. Over on the opposite side, 5th Avenue, there is a little strip of grass with trees. I went and parked my nephew’s car in the shade. I grabbed my purse and started out the door and stopped short. There I saw a rooster, a colorful little guy scratching in the grass. I popped back in and grabbed my camera. Here are some photos. The rooster reminded me of the chickens people had in the country. Here in a town shopping center the rooster strutted about freely, scratching, pecking, and totally unafraid of me.
Back when I was young, I knew that some people kept chickens for eggs or sometimes roosters for cock fights. This one looked like someone’s pet that had escaped. Anyway, that’s the scene in Hawaii for the day.
Aloha, DoT
P.S. I have seen it several times since. apparently this is an urban animal -scene in Hawaii.
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