other dog

You're absolutely right Vlad, we're leaving tomorrow going to Florida. We're going to try to get there once a month anyway because Zina's mother and sister are both there.

I don't know, I'll check.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I tell you one thing I've noticed, everybody's looking for help but nobody wants to work. They can sit home on their fat lazy asses and get almost as much on unemployment for sitting at home on their fat lazy ass as they could working. Bill's Truck Stop in N.C. is closing the restaurant at night now for the first time in forever because they can't find any help. Super 8 in Lynchburg is looking for someone to work the front desk, 3 to 11 shift, Huddle House in Bedford has ran an ad for months now looking for help in all positions for all shifts, the Colonial Restaurant up the road here at Yellow Branch has a "help wanted" sign out front, and F.L.Moore and Sons need drivers for about 4 trucks I think, maybe more. And these are just a few places that I can think of right off the top of my head that are near me.

Here's a girl with really big eyes.

Thank you very much everyone!

I took it back as clean as it's been since it left the showroom floor.

millions, eh? Sounds good to me, then I could afford the lot rent at most any campground in Florida for a month or two.

Well I hope the boss doesn't see the broken seal on the pump, you'll have to fire yourself for tampering with the pump.

Nice, thank you very much!

Thank you. I have decided to work until the end of April, and I'm done. I'm just gonna coast until then🤣

Thank you, thank you very much.

But why is this a polarizing topic?🤔

Yes it is, very much so.

True. He was going to Harrisonburg and Macungie this year, so many of you would have gotten to meet him. Zina had already reserved rooms at pet friendly motels for us.

You really do get attached, and they are family. Not "like" family, family. We loved Ollie, and pretty much everything around here centered around him.

Thank you,I will do that.

Yeah, it really sucks. I took off from work today to be with Zina, and today is worse than yesterday. Ollie was only 7 years old, full of energy. She keeps blaming herself, asking me if there was anything she could have done differently, and I keep telling her that it was not her fault, it was just a freak accident. He never went to the road, but he did. There's hardly any traffic here, but there was then. We took him over to the funeral home today, he will be cremated.

Yep.

Thank you. This was rough, I thought the world of Other Dog but his passing was not unexpected, he was very old and didn't get around very good anymore. But Ollie was our buddy, a fun one at that, full of life, he went everywhere with us. I would always call from just down the road when I was coming home, so he could watch for me out of the front door. Then she would let him out after I stopped and he would run out, like Dino greeting Fred Flintstone I always said.

Ollie went outside with Zina earlier today when she was taking some trash out to the burn barrel. He saw a squirrel right away and took off in hot pursuit- right towards the road. And he never goes towards the road. Until today. And a pickup truck pulling a trailer happened to be passing by and hit him and killed him. I heard Zina screaming and went running but he was dead when I got there. She was sitting on the ground crying, she had to see the whole thing. The guy in the pickup stopped, he was almost crying, and apologized over and over. I was almost crying too- ok, I was crying- when I picked him up and carried him over to the porch. Everybody loved Ollie. I carried him around back where she couldn't see and laid him on the ground by Other Dog's grave, then got the shovel out of the shed and started digging his grave. It was raining then, and Zina came out and asked if she could have him cremated, and of course I said "of course you can, if that's what you want". So I carried him back around front and put him in the shed. I had started putting him in a black plastic bag around back, but I didn't close it. I've been out to the shed and looked at him about 5 times now, hoping he was going to "come to", but it's not going to happen. It just still doesn't seem real. This was just this morning.

Sad day for sure. I think the first time I met him was when I was at a nuclear power plant in Jensen Beach,FL. He brought me a cup of coffee over and we talked for a long time. Then when I was visiting Zina from Florida one time she said "we're going to see your friend Ed". So we drove over and met him for lunch at a nice seafood restaurant, sat outside, and talked for a long time. I'm really glad we made that trip now.

I'm kinda the same way, I have some kind of spam blocker on my phone, I don't remember what it's called, but I get calls and it'll say "potential spam", so I just ignore it. I seem to get a lot of them after 5pm, so that's another clue that it's not legit. I pretty much only answer calls from people that are on my contact list, unless their name starts with "R", then I ignore it anyway.