SUMMER WITH THE SLUG RATSPatience
While I was in the shower I prayed the dog would bark to be
let out. Dr. Deb would get out of bed wondering how her children who could hear
their phones ring two rooms away couldn’t hear the dog barking.
No such luck. The dog waited until I had my car keys in hand
to go to the door. I looked at my watch and cursed.
‘Sometimes all you can do is be grateful for a lesson in
patience,’ I remembered someone in AA saying to me as we listened to a particularly
boring speaker drone on.
The dog sniffed here and there, circled the yard twice, and
got her leash wrapped around the lamppost. She stopped umpteen times before
finally picking THE SPOT. I looked at my watch once more.
“I don’t like you,” I said to the dog. “I’ve never liked
you. I wanted another cat.” She wagged
her tail furiously.
Today
I’ll try to be grateful for lessons in patience.
Summer with the Slug
Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose
Summer with the Slug
Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone
you might know is purely coincidental.
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