I am Stella, Queen of the Olde English Bulldogges. As I have said so often, humans are rude.
Me: So says a bulldog. Where shall my list of rude begin?
Stella: I’ve heard you say before how rude it is to point. I call all to witness! Has Lady Human or Tall Man ever pointed at you?
Tiger: Sure.
Wiggles: All the time.
Doodlebug: Yep.
Miss Sweetie: I don’t know. I don’t pay attention.
Snoopey: Yeah. What’s the big deal?
Stella: The big deal is respect.
Me: Exactly. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
Stella: What? How rude!
Me: For example, I say, “Time to go out.”
Stella: Yes, and I say, “No, not time to go out yet.”
Me: Therefore, I point to the back door.
Stella: Contradicting my decision by your rude hand gesture.
Me: And then, I point to you or whoever and point to the door again.
Stella: And I grudgingly stand up and trudge to the door and out while your rude finger is still pointing as though I don’t know what that means. The humans say that when you are pointing at someone with one finger, three fingers are pointing back at you.
Me: Yeah, some people say that. It means don’t go accusing others, especially if you are guilty of the same thing.
Stella: Just as I thought. You point at me to go do a thing and you need to be doing that 3 times over.
Me: It doesn’t work that way.
Snoopey: I like it when the humans point. They seem to know what they are doing.
Tiger: Yes. No. Maybe.
Doodlebug: I go where they point because I get a treat when I do.
Wiggles: There are treats for that?
Miss Sweetie: I don’t know. I don’t pay attention.
Stella: And once again, bulldog dignity is sacrificed for cheap treats.
Me: Hey, those treats cost a lot and I like to call it ‘training’.
Stella: I call it what it is. Bribery.
Wiggles: I’ll have some bribery, please.
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