07 December 2006

Quick on the Uptake

Various conversations I've had with people about Nori on our daily commute.

Me: She's a bit nippy at the moment.

Person: That's okay.

Me: Oops. She likes your shoelaces.

Person: *patronizingly* You need to get her a chew toy.

Me: You think?

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Person: OOOoooooooh. You're ugly, but your puppy is really cute!

Me: *stunned silence*

Person: That is easily the cutest puppy I've seen in the last 30 seconds.

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Person: Oh, I couldn't see what you were walking.

Me: What?

Person: Well, I knew it wasn't a muskrat.

Me: What?

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Person: So does she have fur or hair?

Me: Excuse me?

Person: Will she have fur or hair?

Me: What? Um... She'll have what she has now. Fur?

Person: So Nori... isn't that like sushi?

Me: Yeah, it's a kind of seaweed.

Person: Yes, I remember that from eating sushi.

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Comment from a person who saw me holding Nori (at 9 weeks of age and having just walked from Shaw to Spadina).

"You know you can't do that all the time. She's going to be too big to be a lap dog"

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Being approached by two female frosh emitting high-pitched continuous squeals that could only be heard via the bones in your ears vibrating.

Me: SHHHHHH!

Them: What?

Me: Just...SHHHHH.

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Person: Oh, she's so cute! What kind of dog is she?

Me: Norwegian Elkhound

Person: I'm a HUGE dog lover and I've NEVER heard of that breed.

Me: Yep.

Person: Don't you think she'll get too big for the condo?

Me: *thinking* How do you know how big she'll get?

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Person 1: Oh, she's so cute. She looks like a German Shepherd!

Me: She's a Norwegian Elkhound

Person 2: She looks almost like a purebred.

Me: She is.

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Person: So fat!

Me: You're fat.

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