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#933151 added April 20, 2018 at 12:00pm
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Another episode in the Whatsit Chronicles
My husband is an airhead sometimes. Somehow I never have been able to convince him that paying attention while driving is a good thing. Sooooo, the other night his foot "slid off the brake accidentally" as he said it and her ran into the guy in front of him at the intersection. The good thing about these episodes is it makes it hard for him to gripe at me for the little piddly things he likes to gripe about because all I have to do is bring up the last driving episode and it shuts him up. Also, now that all our kids are old enough to know how to drive they help me to nag him about driving correctly. I don't tell them to, you understand, they just do it. I have made it sound like he needs to have his license taken away and he is not quite that bad, but I anticipate the day when he will be.

So I say all that to say this. I took him and the kids to work and school this morning so I would have a car. I have sprained my knee and don't have any business driving a car, but I had a couple of errands to run that I know good and well I won't be able to talk anybody else into doing, so I went ahead and got them over with this morning. I was coming in the door and greeting my little dogs. One of my dogs, Jack, has gone on a running-off spurt lately. He needs to be spanked, which I am too tenderhearted to do. He runs out the front door and strolls around and doesn't come back until he gets ready. Which is usually not but a minute or too, but still! Then one of my neighbors way at the other end of the subdivision saw all three out gallivanting and she could see that Jack was the ringleader. She got in her car and followed them until she saw them go back into the gate, then told me when I got home that they were getting out. The lawnmowing guy had been here and didn't shut the gate right. He's newish. My husband traded violin lessons for his kid in exchange for him cutting our yard. Not a bad deal.

Anyway, I got home this morning and noticed I was greeting two dogs instead of three. I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw Jack looking at the door. The screen door was still swinging shut and I hadn't move far enough inside to shut the big door. Jack was taking little tiny tiny steps toward the door in the hopes that I wouldn't notice him. These are the tiniest little steps you ever saw. His nose was stretched out to kingdom come and back trying to see how far he could get. I told him I saw what he was doing and he just had a little fit trying to act like he wasn't being Naughty Maudy. It cracked me up. He is such a little toddler.

I had to share my little funny puppy with you this morning. Everybody can use a smile every now and then!

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