Partial Credit

I'm not a big fan of rain, and when I've been trapped inside for a couple of days things tend to get ugly around my house. Granted I usually start 99% of anything that goes on, but things get ugly.

That being said this past weekend was one of those occasions, it rained Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Needless to say after being cooped up in the house I was more than full of myself. Since it had been raining for three days our puppy's normally white socks were a nice shade of mud. So my lovely wife asked me to let our puppy, a 3 year old 70 pound boxer, I did.

Here's where the problem started our puppy normally sleeps in a Kennel, and will go to her kennel with a little direction; but all I was told to do was let the puppy in. I wasn’t told to put her in the kennel. So once I opened the door and stepped to the side, my sweet puppy (when she misbehaves she’s my puppy) headed straight to my wife’s bedroom (the only place in the house that’s mine is the office) and for the bed. Well the puppy does this really cute bit where she pulls back the covers and crawls under them, it really is a great site to see.

You remember the mud colored socks well they were back white again, but the nice light blue sheets my wife had on the bed were now spotted with a nice shade of mud. Needless to say my lovely bride wasn’t as amused as I was, in the least.

I tried to explain to her that all I did was follow her directions and let the puppy in and from there it was in her hands, she hasn’t bought in to it yet. After I quit laughing and the misses quit threatening to neuter me I changed the sheets on the bed and my wife didn’t even thank me. All she did was mumble something about the life I saved being my own.

Here I was thinking I had followed here instructions to a tee and then gone above and beyond and cleaned up the mess she made. One would think I’d at least get partial credit right?

Shamlessly linked to basil's blog: lunch 4/5/2005