TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
It's happened a time or two before this but never this bad. Baron had a tantrum. The Beast went to the shooting range and, when he goes, he knows it will be for a couple hours. He can't leave Baron in the car that long. Especially because there is no telling how he would react to the noise of all those guns being shot off at the same time. The noise is incredible.
Baron knew he was going to be left behind before the Beast left. He watched the Beast get the guns out of the safe and put them in the trunk of the car. Baron followed him, trailing back and forth from the gun safe to the door out into the garage. He didn't whine or get excited like he does when he knows he is going to go for a ride with the Beast. He doesn't care where it is or how long a ride it is, he gets excited and will jump up and down and whirl around in excitement. Don't forget, this 110 lb. doberman thinks he's a lap dog. He's still fairly young for a male doberman (they mature slower than females). He won't be 3 until June. No matter what they say about dog years, I would place him at about a level of a 5 year old boy. Just a bit better behaved most of the time.
After the Beast left, as he walked past his food stand (the Beast built a stand for him because large dogs have a problem with their stomachs if made to bend all the way down to the floor to eat), he put his nose under the edge of the dry dog food bowl and flipped it over on the floor. Dry dog food was everywhere between his stand and the garage door. Right in front of my laundry area!
THEN! Since he was still upset and frustrated, he went over to the garbage can and started pulling things out of it and throwing them on the floor. When I came out of my room (I was cleaning off some trim up by the ceiling that looked dirty to me), I went berserk! My language would have made a sailor blush I think. The dog ran for a spot behind the Beast's recliner with head and tail down. You could see him cringing. I kept it up the whole time I was sweeping up the cigarette butts and coffee grounds that came out with the plastic bags that were thrown out by the dog onto the floor. Then it continued as I swept up the dog food. He is still hiding from me. He KNOWS what he did was wrong!
If I hadn't had to get into my dryer, I would have left the mess for the Beast to deal with but....I wanted Baron to know what *I* would not tolerate! I had yanked him over to point out the mess and he trotted back into his little corner when I let him go. I didn't rub his nose in it (that always seemed ridiculous to me anyway) because that stuff doesn't work. I knew that HE knew what he had done just by his demeanor. I never let my KIDS throw tantrums and I sure as hell won't let a dog get away with it!
I took down my curtains in my room since they are those ruffled sheer type and you can see the effects of my smoking all along the edges of the ruffles. Mostly at the top of the curtains since the smoke rises. I'm seriously NOT going to smoke in this room during halfway decent weather. That should help a lot. Of course, winter is OUT. I am NOT going to try smoking outside or in my unheated garage during the cold weather. And don't tell me I should quit smoking because I already know that and hear it from everyone.
I will say one thing. This crap they pulled with our cigarettes to make them *fire safe* is almost enough to make me quit. You can't keep the damn thing lit half the time and I think it's made them more dangerous. Let me tell you why. If you smoke, you know what I mean because you have probably noticed it yourself. The *bands* that are responsible for putting out the cigarette actually cause the tobacco to *clump* and those clumps CAN and DO fall off the cigarette.
Sometimes they fall on YOU and you have clothing that burns or you quickly brush it on the floor and you have a burn in your carpet. That's if you are not quite quick enough to retrieve it (I keep a moist rag closeby at all times because of that). I now also have more ashes all over the place because they are no longer *neat*. You feel like you need to keep your face over an ashtray while smoking because of what is happening. I just HATE it! It's the worst thing they could have come up with as far as I am concerned. Plus, does anyone else notice a kind of plastic aftertaste now? Relighting it several times seems to me to be more unhealthy especially with whatever chemicals they have used. You relight it where the chemicals are located that put the cigarette out in the first place. That can't be good.
I found out today just how much those guns and all the ammunition he's purchased in this past month or so have cost us. So far, it's just under $5,000. So you would have to say that, so far, most of our Coke stocks that we cashed in have pretty much gone to his gun collection. I'm not counting the cost of the gun safe which came out of the regular checking nor the ammunition he's bought in the past week. The ammunition will be on the NEXT bill (which he thought I wouldn't find out about because HE usually gets the mail). He pays that one online and when the bill comes, it gets shredded immediately. He thinks I am an idiot but!....I have ways! Men really CAN be morons. *Sigh* He forgets that on our combined statement from the bank, it lists ALL accounts and shows the transfers from our money market account to his bill payments. Guess his short term memory loss accounts for that.
Time to get this posted. I may be posting twice tomorrow since only half the day is gone here. It all depends. Love you all and have a great day. We should be having weather up in the high 60's today, the mid-70's tomorrow and up into the 80's for the weekend. I am excited about that. Hope you have good weather wherever you are.
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