Teaching Dogs to Type
For several years, I’ve had a column in my newsletter supposedly written by my 5- pound Chihuahua, Xena Princess Warrior the Sixth. She’s a feisty little gal, and the way ‘she’ one-ups me really tickles my readers.
Xena Princess Warrior
Actually, Xena gets more mail than I do from the newsletter.
OK – so you’ve figured out by now that this little thing really doesn’t sit at my desk and type, right? Well, here’s an email I actually received the other day, which convinces me that we are, indeed, nearing the end of the world:
Dear Beth:
Thank you for the newsletters. I have a Yorkie named Puddles who is the same size as Xena. I have a question. When Xena writes her newsletter, does she sit on your lap or do you put the keyboard on the floor? I would like to teach Puddles to type. My fingers aren’t what they used to be, and if Puddles could do my correspondence, it would help me out.
Thank you for the help,
Bette
As they say in the South, “Bless her heart…” Of course I thought she was joking and had Xena write her back. Turns out she was dead serious.
“Oh Xena, I’m so glad you wrote. Beth didn’t answer my note. Do you sit on the floor or does she put you on her lap to type?”
Sigh.
Psychology Today way back in 2005 finally admitted that research shows “we are all a little bit crazy.” While 1 in 7 really ARE, we all skate back and forth between totally nuts and doin’ pretty good. As the Paul Simon song goes, “One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.”
Growing up in South Dakota, we midwesterners learned to be pragmatic and use some common sense. Appears there’s not a lot of either out there in the world these days.
Then again, I s’pose that’s job security for me! <grin>
Beth
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