Today I sacrificed myself in an attempt to defend the American flag.
The day was blistering hot and there wasn’t a cloud in sight when suddenly a huge thunderstorm hit the town out of nowhere. My first instinct was to run out and remove the flag lest it be damaged by rain and hail. I didn’t even consider that it would be impossible for me to reach the flag without a stepladder. The moment I ran into the porch, a huge wave of water hit me in the face and soaked me down to my underwear. I tried getting inside but couldn’t even find the door for a couple of minutes.
The flag is fine but my hair is crazier than ever. And what have you done to fulfill your patriotic duty lately?
By the way, the area we moved into is a lot more decent than the one we lived before. What I mean by this is that we go for long walks every day and not a single dog tried to approach me. There are dogs but the good people of the neighborhood have them on leashes and not running around, traumatizing innocent passersby.
And since nobody guessed the answer to my riddle, the question people keep asking when they hear I bought a house is, “So now you will be able to buy a dog, right?” Apparently, the only reason people don’t have dogs is that they can’t keep them in the style the nasty critters supposedly deserve.
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And what about a cat?
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I wouldn’t inflict myself on any innocent animal. 🙂
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We have no pets. Petless Americans, unite!
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Yes! Does this mean we are hopelessly foreign, though?
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Well, I can always resort to saying my kids are allergic, which is true. The reality is I don’t like dogs (would never hurt them, but I don’t care to care for them). I really don’t see the appeal. I had Siamese cats when I was growing up, cats are awesome.
Honestly, pets are, in my view, just needless additional burden. I can hardly take care of all the humans who depend on me.
To answer your question… Maybe. Maybe not seeing the appeal of pet ownership does make us hopelessly foreign. I’ll take that over dog poop and vet bills any day, though.
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I agree COMPLETELY. 🙂
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The main duty of a flag is to be burnt.
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And the water from the rain was going to prevent that! Which is why I needed to save it. 🙂
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Three horses and goat and one of those strange Australian animals called a chook.
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I don’t think chickens are unique to Australia. I have seen them also in Africa.
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hahah. never saw a bunyip though, in Africa.
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Nobody ever sees the bunyip until it’s too late!
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LOL. I really don’t like dogs. I thought I did, but then, we got cats and I realized how awfully high maintenance and annoying dogs are. I’m a cat convert. Love them!
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I live on the shore of Lake Ontario at the west end of Condo Alley and the practice here is to have a matched pair of dogs to walk on the waterfront trail board walk. Most of them are white lap dogs that yap at the bikers although one fellow has a pair of large pit-bull type dogs named “fluffy and bubbles”.
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