<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Snoopy (and all the rest of you too)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Mothers sign a contact at the very beginning, in fact before the beginning that is like a jillion pages long and all in fine print and on that real thin paper.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">They do this for people babies but it applies across the board to any small helpless thing they may encounter in their lives including sometimes husbands. But always Basset Hounds.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It has stuff in it that you cannot imagine. Like making the house smell good and controlling the reproduction of dust bunnies and it used to be much much worse, and include making soap and cleaning the chicken coop.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">But anyway one of the sections says that when a doctor or Vetperson says YOU DO THIS, well then, YOU DO THAT, whether the patient understands why or not. The worst part is that these VetPeople often issue these orders without ever having to enforce them because they have people at home to do it or people in the kennel who do it and they are busy issuing other impossible orders like KEEP THIS 12 WEEK OLD PUPPY QUIET FOR THREE WEEKS and DONT LET THIS DOG ON THE FURNITURE OR STAIRS. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">But it is right there in the contract that we clueless ones signed years ago and so we have to comply, or try, even if it seems stupid and crazy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">And at the bottom of the contract is the line most Mothers miss because by then they are exhausted reading the damn thing and it says:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"Once you are a Mother you are always a Mother and you may not stop being a Mother no matter what and all small creatures are your children and you thought this was just until they were grown up and it never ends Bwaaaaaahahahahahaahahahahah."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">And the addendum says:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"You must answer the phone at 3 a.m. because you are a Mother."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">and the one after that says</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"Basset hounds with bad backs must not be allowed to jump onto furniture whether they like it or not, lots of luck on that one."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So see, Snoopy, she has no choice because someplace, put away in a drawer, is that contract. And even if she hadn't signed it, she's a Mother.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">MomPerson, who signed one too.<br clear="all"></div><br> <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"></font><br></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div>
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