"The Pigeon Who Saved The Day."

              It was Friday night when an old man walked into his favorite bar. He had been coming to the same bar for twelve years and, Oh boy! Did he have stories to share, but his cane and his long white beard did not attract too many visitors. In the bar, nothing had changed for years. The same old dusted moose head was on the wall next to the TV, and the jukebox played the same soft rock songs over and over again. Without having to say a word, the bartender who was almost his age, brought him his usual drink. As he drank his whisky, the old man noticed a baby in a stroller next to the ladies bathroom. He thought that was strange, but paid little attention to the baby, assuming that this mother of the year would get out of the bathroom any second now. Through the mirror behind the bar, he spotted a beautiful but lonely lady sitting on the sand of the beach in front of the bar. The old man was tired of been lonely so he decided to approach her.

“Hello miss, I don’t mean to disturb you, but you seem like you need some company. If you’d like, we can chat a little.” And pointing at the bar he said, “I’m in that bar having a drink.”

“Que?” the beautiful lady replied.

The old man realized that the lady spoke no English, but that did not stop him. Using sign language and the very few words he knew in Spanish, he pointed at the bar and said:

 “Hola amiga, you want to go there with me?”

As soon as he said those words, the old man realized that he might have sounded a little creepy, but to his surprise, the lady got up, smiled and said okay. Once in the bar, the old guy and the woman were having a good time. They were both smiling, having their drinks, listening to music while they tried to communicate with sign language and a word or two they knew in each other’s language.  In the bar, there were two very drunk skinny guys who were playing pool. They were shocked to see a beautiful woman with the creepy old guy. Approaching them, one of the drunk man stumbled the words:

 “What is a beautiful woman like you, doing wasting her time with this old man?”  “Excuse me, but did anyone call you here?” the old guy shouted.

 “Shut up Santa Claus!” yelled one of the drunken guys, making the other friend laugh by his comment.

No one expected the old man’s reaction when he grabbed his cane and hit the man in the head. The other guy helped his friend get up as he marked the floor with his blood.

“You are gonna wish you hadn’t done that!” said the injured man.

 “Let’s take this outside.”

 On their way out, the woman grabbed one of the balls from the pool table, just in case things got out of control. Outside the bar, the old guy tried to apologize for what had happened. The lady was serious, waiting to see what happened next. She did not understand half of their conversation, but there was no need for words to know that things were going to get ugly. The injured man was standing two inches away from the old guy’s face.

Silent took over for a couple of seconds. It was a very awkward moment until a pigeon flew above them and pooped on the beautiful woman’s head. They were all in shock, waiting to see how she would react. The woman started laughing and so did everyone else around. There was no fight that day, just another story to share that would titled the pigeon who saved the day.  

By: Nerea Duran