Bye Bye Boss

I'm having one of those nights where no matter how hard you try, sleep will not come. Maybe it was all the excitement of today or maybe it was Allen getting up to answer the phone at 10:15 and then coming to bed gloating that he'd sold a dog. I had to point out that all he had done was answer the phone. I was the one that placed the add in the first place. I had waited over two weeks for him to make some kind of move toward selling the whopper of a mistake and he'd done nothing. You, see a few weeks ago a friend of his gave him a Boxer bulldog, Boss. Now he's a very sweet doggie and I really like him, but we have so many others and he just doesn't fit in. He looks like a car parked in a garage in our kennels that are built for 10 pound dogs, not 100 pound monsters. And, don't even get me started on cleaning his kennel. It is like mucking out a horse's stall. I'm afraid he'll eat one of our runty little pups or maybe eat Bob the cat. I told Allen not to take him, so of course, he had the man drop him off while I was gone to school. He proceeded to tell me how easy it would be to sell the 100 pound brute, so I waited for him to run an add, make a sign, do something, do anything, just find a new home for him. He eats as much as all the rest of our dogs put together. Anyway, yesterday I was tired of waiting, so I took some cute pictures of him and wrote this nice little add that I posted to three or four free online classifieds. Well I received emails the next day and Allen answered a different call, so now he's all cocky with this I told you so attitude, as if he did anything but bring the dog here. He said "See men like big dogs" and I just had to roll my eyes and tell him that if I'd waited on him to make a move toward selling him we'd have more in dog food than we could ever hope to get from selling him. You know what's going to happen? He'll start taking in every big pure bred dog he can find thinking he can turn around and sell it. Oh well, he's almost completely blind and won't be able to read those free classified adds much longer in the newspaper and I'll just have to accidently skip over them when I read them aloud to him. Okay, I'm just being mean now. It's time for bed.