lex is angry!
Jul. 10th, 2006 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crankylexI can't shut up today, can I?
Anyway, this conversation just took place in my back yard:
C: Child Next Door, a little girl about 10 years old
L: Me
C (through chain link fence that surrounds my entire back yard): Excuse me!
L (looking up): Yes, honey?
C: Do you have a dog? A big brown one?
L: Yes...
C: Can you not let him outside? I'm afraid of him.
L: Honey, we're in our own yard.
C: But I'm afraid he'll jump the fence.
L: He's never outside unattended, someone is always with him.
C: Oh. Okay.
So basically, this kid felt perfectly within her rights to ask me to keep my dog out of my own fenced in yard because she's afraid of him.
Um, no.
Harry is possibly the most submissive dog ALIVE. He is not aggressive at all, plus he really is never left outside alone (otherwise he will jump the fence to go wandering.)
I would attribute this special snowflake attitude to her youth, but her father is the same charming Haitian man previously mentioned in my lj and I imagine that it is genetic. Part of me wanted to say, "Well honey, I think your father is a gigantic douchebag, but I don't ask you to keep him in the house, now do I?"
GRRRRRR.
Anyway, this conversation just took place in my back yard:
C: Child Next Door, a little girl about 10 years old
L: Me
C (through chain link fence that surrounds my entire back yard): Excuse me!
L (looking up): Yes, honey?
C: Do you have a dog? A big brown one?
L: Yes...
C: Can you not let him outside? I'm afraid of him.
L: Honey, we're in our own yard.
C: But I'm afraid he'll jump the fence.
L: He's never outside unattended, someone is always with him.
C: Oh. Okay.
So basically, this kid felt perfectly within her rights to ask me to keep my dog out of my own fenced in yard because she's afraid of him.
Um, no.
Harry is possibly the most submissive dog ALIVE. He is not aggressive at all, plus he really is never left outside alone (otherwise he will jump the fence to go wandering.)
I would attribute this special snowflake attitude to her youth, but her father is the same charming Haitian man previously mentioned in my lj and I imagine that it is genetic. Part of me wanted to say, "Well honey, I think your father is a gigantic douchebag, but I don't ask you to keep him in the house, now do I?"
GRRRRRR.
