{"id":51145,"date":"2023-12-20T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51145"},"modified":"2023-12-19T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T14:02:09","slug":"qotd-washing-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/qotd-washing-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Washing the dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anyway, when it was done I drove to the hardware store for some paint. I handed over the samples and said I’d pick it up tomorrow, no rush.<\/p>\n

“No, I can do those now, in ten minutes.”<\/p>\n

“That’s okay. It will give me an excuse not to do it today.”<\/p>\n

“Ha ha! I’ll be right back, just take ten minutes.”<\/p>\n

“No really I’m serious I — ” but he was already on the job. Damned efficient conscientious local hardware store. I also exchanged a propane cylinder, even though it still had some gas in it. I can never tell. If I worked with these things every day I could tell by hoisting it, but it seemed light.<\/p>\n

“Probably some in it,” I said to one of the 39 youths who work the store, “but if I can hoist it one hand it’s probably almost done.” To demonstrate my manliness I hoisted the cylinder chest high a few times. Ha! See! Am not old. Strong like bool!<\/p>\n

I have a red line of pain running from my scapula to my kidney right now.<\/p>\n

Went home, did not paint, because it was supposed to rain. It did not rain. Fixed a few things, napped hard — had got up early for the Roseville jaunt — then grilled kababs, wondering exactly what I was missing that would have added SHISH to the KEBABS. Helped Friend Wife give the dog a bath; it’s amazing how he knows a bath is imminent, and will brook no subterfuge. Anytime someone tries to get him upstairs with a treat, he’s suspicious. If you try to get him in the bathroom with a treat, he is convinced that this will end with humiliation and wetness for no good reason at all, I mean, c’mon, why?<\/em> He just got to the point where he’s a walking embodiment of all the interesting things that have happened and the interesting places he has been, and we’re just going to erase that? A shower for a dog is like the little amnesia pens the Men in Black<\/em> use.<\/p>\n

James Lileks, The Bleat<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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