Coco
Coco Calling No.204 - How Much Are We Worth?
My owner was recently sorting out some stuff in our annex. Nanna lived over there before her passing last September, and regular readers may remember that I used to fly over to see her every morning.
Well, my owner came across some old documents relating to his birth. Nanna had chosen to give birth to him in a private nursing home following a bad hospital experience some years before. And don’t you just know it, my owner didn’t appear very quickly! (Why don’t humans lay eggs like parrots?) It was a long, drawn-out labour with some complications, before he was eventually delivered safely into this world. The consultant overseeing his birth, -a certain Dr. W.R.D. Wiggins – issued a bill for his services amounting to 16 pounds and 16 shillings (which in today’s money is about £16.80). So I guess that no one thought my owner was very valuable when he was born. I mean, you couldn’t buy a budgerigar for that these days!
But then again, it’s only humans that put a monetary value on things and so very often, they get it wrong. Just think about those humans that run up and down on a patch of grass trying to kick a ball between two white posts. They can be sold by their clubs for as much as 100 million pounds.
