My dog and I seem like such spazzes today XD
There was such an amusing series of events just now... The two stories are below.
I left my dog with these ladies to have her hair cut today. It's a tiny little grooming place where you walk into the same room where they keep the dogs and are cutting their hair. I had told them I'd pick Harley up by 4 pm, when they close. I got there at about 3:51 and walked into the room.
The second I walked in I realized my mistake. Harley was standing on the table, the woman was in the middle of using the shaver on her, and Harley saw me immediately. In the same set of seconds, Harley tried to leap off the table toward me, the woman caught her in time, and I instantly dropped down into a crouch behind the counter and cried, "I'll hide!"
The woman laughed, repeating my words, and then said, "I just need 3 more minutes."
But of course, now Harley was crying up a storm trying to get to where she'd last seen me, and the woman was doing her best to finish it all.
"Would it be better if I stood up so she could see me?" I asked.
"No, then she'll try the flying leap of death."
So I stayed there, crouched with the cash to pay them sitting in front of me on the floor, while the woman cooed to my dog that "Mom left, so you don't need to look for her." I felt like such a weirdo when a teenaged girl walked in, looked at me crouched on the floor smiling up at her, and then tried to open the little door to get into the back area. That door is about half the height of a normal door, probably 4 feet tall or so. I could hear a dog was flipping out trying to get out on the other side but it took me a bit to realize it was Harley.
The woman was getting Harley's collar so I stood up. The girl was able to get on the other side of the door without Harley getting through the crack, and I was standing where Harley couldn't see me.
I heard some other clients walking into the room behind me just as I looked over and saw my crazy little dog leap straight up into the air and catch herself on the top of the door, balanced and trying to scramble over. So I ran over and grabbed her before she could fall, and she was instantly scrabbling around licking my face, squirming nearly out of my hold.
"Wow," said the man who'd walked in behind me. "That was impressive."
Meanwhile the woman was saying, "I love your dog! If I had her, I'd never cut her hair!"
So then came the question from the man of what kind of dog she is, and while I started to answer the groomer woman said, "She's Harley! That's what she is!"
Once I finally got Harley on her leash and back in my car, I decided I wanted to go get fries and a chai. Because for some reason it would not leave my mind. The stop at the coffee shop was uneventful but then I got it in my mind to go to Wendy's. I looked online and saw one was nearby off a busy street I rarely use. So I sat in the lights and was stuck in traffic trying to get over there.
I saw a bunch of driveways in a row with signs for enter/exit, and was kind of confused by this. The woman ahead of me started to pull into the Wendy's driveway but then stopped, I couldn't figure out why except a bunch of people were walking on the sidewalk nearby, and just as I started to pull in behind her I realized it was actually the exit lane for the DQ drive-through. I was able to go over to Wendy's where there was no line.
There was no problem in my ordering the fries. A woman said, "$2.38, please. Pull through to the first window."
"Okay," I said into the speaker, then pulled around the corner and zipped forward.
I got to the end of the building before realizing-- Wait a minute. Where did the windows go?? I looked back in my rearview mirror and saw a woman leaning out the window looking around, and then realized I had flown right past it. I started to try to back up but I'm TERRIBLE at backing up, and almost hit the curb. So then I pulled forward and luckily they had a space that let me drive around the building, back through the drive-through, and stop at the first window.
The woman opened the window, grinning, and I was already half-laughing.
"Sorry," I said. "I don't know what the hell I was doing. I was just like DOO-DEE-DOO. Clearly, I need to eat something."
The woman burst out laughing and told me the amount of money. I started pulling the money from my wallet, still talking.
"I was going to back up but then I realized I'd just crash into the building so I had to pull all the way around."
That got her going even more. She started to say something like, "Yeah I wondered what was happening" but she was laughing too hard. I handed her the money and kept talking.
"The funny thing is, on the way here this lady ahead of me pulled into the Taco Bell exit right next to here--"
"Dairy Queen?"
"Oh yeah, the Dairy Queen exit. And I started to do the same thing before I realized what I was doing. Obviously I can't handle anything right now."
We were both laughing so much by then that the woman wiped tears from her eyes and couldn't speak. I said, "Thank you. Have a good day!" and she managed a, "You too XD" before I pulled forward.
This time, I made sure to actually stop at the window to get my food XD That woman was grinning especially largely too when she handed it over, so I'm not sure if she knew what was going on or if she was just in a cheerful mood.
In my defense, I rarely ever go to fast food, and when I do it's usually McDonald's because that's the most convenient one. They have a little money catcher thing in front of the window and the window itself is a different color than the building so it's super clear where the window is. That Wendy's just had a flat brick side of the building and the windows blended into it. That's the only defense I had XD
But just seeing how hard that first woman was laughing, where she had to wipe her eyes and almost snorted, had me laughing all the way back home. That, and remembering looking in my rearview window and seeing this arm and head pop out of the side of the building like, "What the fuck just happened?"
XD Here we are, my dog and me. Interrupting everyone's routines since 3:51 today XD
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[ETA]
OH! I just remembered another thing XD I noticed my car has been making some weird noises since yesterday when I'm idling. I tried taking a video of it the other day but there was too much wind.
After I'd dropped Harley off this morning, I'd had to stop at an ATM. While at the ATM, I recorded the sound of my car with the video on my phone while I got the money from the ATM. Then, before I left the ATM I pulled up the video, hit the share-via-email button, and emailed it to my dad with the message "My car is making weird noises."
A few hours later at work, I got a call from my dad.
"Hey," I said as I answered the call. "Is this about the video?"
There was a slight pause and then he said, sounding both amused and slightly stern, "This is your father calling."
Which then confused me. "...I know. I thought you were calling about the video, but I guess not."
"What video?"
"Oh maybe you didn't see it yet. What's up?"
"I'm calling because I got an email from you that just said, 'My car is making weird noises.'"
"That's the email but it was supposed to have a video," I laughed, and he burst out laughing too.
"Oh! Because I thought, '.....Okaaay. And what are the noises it's making..?'"
I started laughing really hard because the idea of someone getting an email "My car is making weird noises" is so completely unhelpful that it was hilarious to me.
So basically, all day today I've been apparently incapable of the simplest of tasks. Probably no one should trust anything I say or do the rest of the night XD
But also, it begs the question: who the hell did my dad think I thought I was talking to?? And what video was he imagining I was asking about XD
I left my dog with these ladies to have her hair cut today. It's a tiny little grooming place where you walk into the same room where they keep the dogs and are cutting their hair. I had told them I'd pick Harley up by 4 pm, when they close. I got there at about 3:51 and walked into the room.
The second I walked in I realized my mistake. Harley was standing on the table, the woman was in the middle of using the shaver on her, and Harley saw me immediately. In the same set of seconds, Harley tried to leap off the table toward me, the woman caught her in time, and I instantly dropped down into a crouch behind the counter and cried, "I'll hide!"
The woman laughed, repeating my words, and then said, "I just need 3 more minutes."
But of course, now Harley was crying up a storm trying to get to where she'd last seen me, and the woman was doing her best to finish it all.
"Would it be better if I stood up so she could see me?" I asked.
"No, then she'll try the flying leap of death."
So I stayed there, crouched with the cash to pay them sitting in front of me on the floor, while the woman cooed to my dog that "Mom left, so you don't need to look for her." I felt like such a weirdo when a teenaged girl walked in, looked at me crouched on the floor smiling up at her, and then tried to open the little door to get into the back area. That door is about half the height of a normal door, probably 4 feet tall or so. I could hear a dog was flipping out trying to get out on the other side but it took me a bit to realize it was Harley.
The woman was getting Harley's collar so I stood up. The girl was able to get on the other side of the door without Harley getting through the crack, and I was standing where Harley couldn't see me.
I heard some other clients walking into the room behind me just as I looked over and saw my crazy little dog leap straight up into the air and catch herself on the top of the door, balanced and trying to scramble over. So I ran over and grabbed her before she could fall, and she was instantly scrabbling around licking my face, squirming nearly out of my hold.
"Wow," said the man who'd walked in behind me. "That was impressive."
Meanwhile the woman was saying, "I love your dog! If I had her, I'd never cut her hair!"
So then came the question from the man of what kind of dog she is, and while I started to answer the groomer woman said, "She's Harley! That's what she is!"
Once I finally got Harley on her leash and back in my car, I decided I wanted to go get fries and a chai. Because for some reason it would not leave my mind. The stop at the coffee shop was uneventful but then I got it in my mind to go to Wendy's. I looked online and saw one was nearby off a busy street I rarely use. So I sat in the lights and was stuck in traffic trying to get over there.
I saw a bunch of driveways in a row with signs for enter/exit, and was kind of confused by this. The woman ahead of me started to pull into the Wendy's driveway but then stopped, I couldn't figure out why except a bunch of people were walking on the sidewalk nearby, and just as I started to pull in behind her I realized it was actually the exit lane for the DQ drive-through. I was able to go over to Wendy's where there was no line.
There was no problem in my ordering the fries. A woman said, "$2.38, please. Pull through to the first window."
"Okay," I said into the speaker, then pulled around the corner and zipped forward.
I got to the end of the building before realizing-- Wait a minute. Where did the windows go?? I looked back in my rearview mirror and saw a woman leaning out the window looking around, and then realized I had flown right past it. I started to try to back up but I'm TERRIBLE at backing up, and almost hit the curb. So then I pulled forward and luckily they had a space that let me drive around the building, back through the drive-through, and stop at the first window.
The woman opened the window, grinning, and I was already half-laughing.
"Sorry," I said. "I don't know what the hell I was doing. I was just like DOO-DEE-DOO. Clearly, I need to eat something."
The woman burst out laughing and told me the amount of money. I started pulling the money from my wallet, still talking.
"I was going to back up but then I realized I'd just crash into the building so I had to pull all the way around."
That got her going even more. She started to say something like, "Yeah I wondered what was happening" but she was laughing too hard. I handed her the money and kept talking.
"The funny thing is, on the way here this lady ahead of me pulled into the Taco Bell exit right next to here--"
"Dairy Queen?"
"Oh yeah, the Dairy Queen exit. And I started to do the same thing before I realized what I was doing. Obviously I can't handle anything right now."
We were both laughing so much by then that the woman wiped tears from her eyes and couldn't speak. I said, "Thank you. Have a good day!" and she managed a, "You too XD" before I pulled forward.
This time, I made sure to actually stop at the window to get my food XD That woman was grinning especially largely too when she handed it over, so I'm not sure if she knew what was going on or if she was just in a cheerful mood.
In my defense, I rarely ever go to fast food, and when I do it's usually McDonald's because that's the most convenient one. They have a little money catcher thing in front of the window and the window itself is a different color than the building so it's super clear where the window is. That Wendy's just had a flat brick side of the building and the windows blended into it. That's the only defense I had XD
But just seeing how hard that first woman was laughing, where she had to wipe her eyes and almost snorted, had me laughing all the way back home. That, and remembering looking in my rearview window and seeing this arm and head pop out of the side of the building like, "What the fuck just happened?"
XD Here we are, my dog and me. Interrupting everyone's routines since 3:51 today XD
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[ETA]
OH! I just remembered another thing XD I noticed my car has been making some weird noises since yesterday when I'm idling. I tried taking a video of it the other day but there was too much wind.
After I'd dropped Harley off this morning, I'd had to stop at an ATM. While at the ATM, I recorded the sound of my car with the video on my phone while I got the money from the ATM. Then, before I left the ATM I pulled up the video, hit the share-via-email button, and emailed it to my dad with the message "My car is making weird noises."
A few hours later at work, I got a call from my dad.
"Hey," I said as I answered the call. "Is this about the video?"
There was a slight pause and then he said, sounding both amused and slightly stern, "This is your father calling."
Which then confused me. "...I know. I thought you were calling about the video, but I guess not."
"What video?"
"Oh maybe you didn't see it yet. What's up?"
"I'm calling because I got an email from you that just said, 'My car is making weird noises.'"
"That's the email but it was supposed to have a video," I laughed, and he burst out laughing too.
"Oh! Because I thought, '.....Okaaay. And what are the noises it's making..?'"
I started laughing really hard because the idea of someone getting an email "My car is making weird noises" is so completely unhelpful that it was hilarious to me.
So basically, all day today I've been apparently incapable of the simplest of tasks. Probably no one should trust anything I say or do the rest of the night XD
But also, it begs the question: who the hell did my dad think I thought I was talking to?? And what video was he imagining I was asking about XD