Re: Very OT: Teenagers & Telephones

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That is a cute story!

Liz

>

>

> OK, so I don't have human kids. Shadow and Sunny

> are now ten, which is a fair number of dog years.

> However, I've felt like a teenager's parent several times the last

few days.

>

> My Great Galoot, aka Shadow, likes to sit in the

> front window, to the left of my computer desk.

> The typing el to my left holds more things than I

> want to think about, including the telephone.

>

> Normally, the Galoot is very careful about

> stomping on stuff. The last few days, though,

> he's managed to wrap himself up in the phone cord

> and pull the phone off the desk not once, but

> multiple times. Then he sits on it.

>

> And here I am, trying to extract the phone out

> from under 30 pounds of long-haired dachshund,

> and sounding EXACTLY like a teenager's parent:

> " Shadow, get off the phone! Shadow, get OFF the

> PHONE! Shadow, d@mmit, get off the phone, NOW! "

>

> <sigh> Fur children. At least human children theoretically grow up

some day....

>

>

> — Marilyn

> New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

> Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

> Darn Good SCD Cook

> No Human Children

> Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

>