Usually the entertainment on the boardwalk comes from the plethora of afro-urban-circus acts that crowd the surrounding open plots of cement, but not today. Well, at least not for the five angst-filled minutes when two grayish-brown rodents (yes, rodents, don’t let their bushy tails and innocent demeanor fool you) decided to get their mating on right in the middle of tourist way.
The whole event might have gone unnoticed if it weren’t for the high-pitched screeches coming from the female, which even stopped a nearby piano player in mid-key…Maybe, he thought it was his piano. But for those of us that were close enough, it was far from a bad chord or a broken string, it was the rawest form of animal utterance that had ever filled our urban ears. And let me assure you that this phenomenon spanned the cultures. Tourists from Europe, Asia, and Australia, all stopped in fear and awe to see this copulation. One little girl even shrieked back at it, although I wasn’t sure if it was because of the noise or the act itself.
“Do you think it’s in pain?” one onlooker asked. A roller skating queen straight out of the 80’s, decked out in satin shorts and a braided headband, laughed in response and replied, “It’s been a long time, eh?” And she backwards-skated away.
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