Stray dogs
I picked up a stray dog wandering along the highway and generally wreaking havock with the Friday morning traffic. I coaxed it into the back seat of my car and took it to the local vet. It didn't have an I.D tag or a microchip. Why don't people I.D their pets? I mean, honestly, how hard is it to tie some kind of little tag to your pet's collar? I dropped in on a couple of the houses near where I found it but no success. They all either denied ownership or didn't know who it belonged to. Since there's no-one in residence at the vet over the weekend it will have been sent to the pound. Poor thing. With a good bath and feed it would be a beautiful dog (even better if it was desexed). I hope someone adopts it; it's an older but very friendly Border Collie.
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Also on Friday, the minister and his wife from Mum and Dad's church dropped in unexpectedly. They did the whole "oh we where just in the area and thought we'd drop in on you". Yeah, right. They just happened to be out of town and on our estate huh? They're really nice people but come on, give me a break. Anyway, they wanted to see me, most of all. First they said they wanted to ask me about some xBox games because their daughter-in-law just bought their son an xBox for giving up smoking. I told them about a couple of good games. Then they squirmed on their seat and gave each other an awkward look. They chatted to Mum for a few minutes then turned back to me and said "um, Chris, will you be here between July 4 and 8?" I said sure, probably. They then started to tell me all about these friends of theirs who are coming to visit who have a twenty-year old daughter.
I think they're trying to set me up with this girl. They kept saying stuff like:
"She's a really lovely girl, doesn't go out much, never had a long relationship with a boy, could you spend a few days with her? Oh, by the way, she just happens to live not too far from where you do back in Melbourne."
There was more to it but Mum agreed with me. It's like their setting us up. Great. A couple of old geezers from a hideously boring church are trying to get me to spend four days with a girl I have never met and couldn't care less about meeting.
Is that unjustly harsh? Probably, but I just don't feel like making new friends at the moment.
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I took iPod to the beach again today. He loved it, as usual. Still scared stiff of waves though.
Oh, BTW, I'm not going to go back to that trainer. Stuff her. Forgetting appointments is just a little too unprofessional for my liking.
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Also on Friday, the minister and his wife from Mum and Dad's church dropped in unexpectedly. They did the whole "oh we where just in the area and thought we'd drop in on you". Yeah, right. They just happened to be out of town and on our estate huh? They're really nice people but come on, give me a break. Anyway, they wanted to see me, most of all. First they said they wanted to ask me about some xBox games because their daughter-in-law just bought their son an xBox for giving up smoking. I told them about a couple of good games. Then they squirmed on their seat and gave each other an awkward look. They chatted to Mum for a few minutes then turned back to me and said "um, Chris, will you be here between July 4 and 8?" I said sure, probably. They then started to tell me all about these friends of theirs who are coming to visit who have a twenty-year old daughter.
I think they're trying to set me up with this girl. They kept saying stuff like:
"She's a really lovely girl, doesn't go out much, never had a long relationship with a boy, could you spend a few days with her? Oh, by the way, she just happens to live not too far from where you do back in Melbourne."
There was more to it but Mum agreed with me. It's like their setting us up. Great. A couple of old geezers from a hideously boring church are trying to get me to spend four days with a girl I have never met and couldn't care less about meeting.
Is that unjustly harsh? Probably, but I just don't feel like making new friends at the moment.
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I took iPod to the beach again today. He loved it, as usual. Still scared stiff of waves though.
Oh, BTW, I'm not going to go back to that trainer. Stuff her. Forgetting appointments is just a little too unprofessional for my liking.