Today's Charming Phone Call
People who know me frequently complain that I hardly ever answer my phone. I tell them that if they got the calls that [b]I[/b] do, they wouldn’t answer their phone either.
Today was a case in point. I’ve been getting up every two hours since Bunny’s puppies were born, so I’m operating in a constant state of groggy, sleep deprived confusion. Add to that the fact that I’ve come down with a cold, and you can’t be surprised if fielding puppy inquiries isn’t my favorite thing at the moment. Still, when the phone rang this morning with a NYC area code, I answered it, mostly because I was too out of it to remember not to.
Wrong choice. It was a whiny voiced girl who sounded like she was channeling the ghost of Paris Hilton’s worst mood. The conversation went something like this:
Her, in a tone of supreme boredom: I’m, like calling about your dogs, the ones on your internet thing?
Me: My web page?
Her: Yeah, whatever. The white ones? How much are they?
Me: Do you mean Bunny’s puppies?
Her: Yeah, the white ones. The ones on your internet thing.
Me: Are you on our mailing list?
Her, in tone that clearly implied a lot of eye rolling was taking place: Ummm, no!
Me, in tone that implies I need some coffee, soon: OK. Have you filled out an application?
Her, in tones of increasingly whiny impatience: No, like, I just want to know how much those two puppies are.
Me: Well, they’re not for sale.
Her, in tone of appalled, screechy, whiny disbelief: Well, I want those two, the ones that match. I want matching ones.
Me, in tone of ‘ok, I am too tired for this sh*t and have had enough’: Well, may I suggest that you get two that don’t match from someone else, and dye them, like a pair of shoes.
Her: Ok, what-ev-ever. Bitch.
Slam of phone.
Seriously? It’s a wonder I ever, ever answer my phone. Ever.
Let the puppy photo onslaught begin…And Bunny Finally GETS it!!
An Update: Hallelujah! Bunny finally realized that “these are puppies, and puppies are for licking!”. And lick them she has, until I had to tuck them back in the whelping box before they drowned. So, yippee for Bunny, and for mother nature!!
You are forewarned – I tend to post a lot of puppy photos. Like, daily sets of photos. I suppose it makes for boring blogging, but they change so rapidly at this age, and I never seem to run out of cute poses I catch them in, or expressions I just have to get on film (well, not film exactly – hard drive?).
So, lots of photos taken today already up on flickr –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchbulldogs/sets/72157602915821709/
And here’s a sample – this is the little white girl.
Delilah felt left out..
… so I took some pix of her being a goof in her pen. She’s taken to napping with her fleecy donut bed on her head, like a hat.
She’s at the weird, gawky puppy phase – her feet look too big for her body, her head is all ears, and she doesn’t walk – she run/hop/jumps every place she goes.
Her new trick is sticking her stuffed toy in her water dish, then sucking on it. She is one nutty little puppy…
Check out the goofball faces she was making in these pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchbulldogs/sets/72157602891966102/
A sample –
