Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Free Ice Cream for Dogs!
Occasionally (or actually probably more than occasionally), Phollower and I visit an ice cream store near our house, Culvers. They have great frozen custard/ice cream. If you ever have a chance to visit one, I highly recommend it. But the point of this post is not to advertise for them. When we go, we usually (actually always) order ice cream for the dogs - just small vanilla cake cones, nothing too fancy, but they go crazy. As a result, Samwise (one of our dogs) drools at the site of a drive-through window. If you have the dog with you in the car, and you tell them at the drive-through speaker that the ice cream is for the dog, they will give it to you for FREE. It is a little smaller serving than the whole single scoop cone, but the dogs don't know. The idea that the ice cream is FREE for the dogs just strikes me as funny. Imagine going to a poor third world country where people are starving and telling them that in America we have so much food, that you can get a FREE dessert for your dog at restaurants. There is no free ice cream for for adults or kids or anything, but there is for dogs. I am not complaining mind you. I just wonder what that person would think of that. Now, Phollower likes to point out the ice cream is not free, the cost is actually imputed. But I like to point out that the cost is imputed into everyone's ice cream (and food), not just ours. It is like a tax on non-dog owners to pay part of the cost of my dogs' ice cream cones. Makes me feel better about paying school taxes.
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At least Sam doesn't whine at the sight of the Golden Arches in the town nearest to us unlike Mr Bandit. He's gotten free nachos from Taco Bell before, too. >.<
I totally need to invest in a dog suit. Our grocery bill could drop waaayyy down.
I'm so fricking mad right now.
I just looked up "imputed" in the dictionary, and from how you used the word and how it's defined in Webster's 10th edition, it means I'm paying for your dogs' so-called "free" ice cream?!
Jesus H. Christ.
Or am I even allowed to invoke his name anymore in this Communist state?
Of all the unfair shit.
I'm paying an extra 1/10th of one cent for my medium blueberry concrete so Samwise can drool at a drive-through window.
Biggest crock of dark passenger I've ever heard of.
(Phollower: I'd absolutely laugh my ass off if I saw you hanging out of a car window at a Culver's drive-through, dressed in a dog suit. Damn, is that a hilrious image!)
In Haiti people eat mud.
And they pay for it.
Yes O'Butter, you have discerned the correct definition. Are you channeling Zoe? Actually, her dark passenger wouldn't come out over this since her dogs get free ice cream too.
Limpy: MMMMM....mud!
You don't think I was questioning your use of "imputed," do you?
I'd never heard the word before, but it's fitting and funny in relation to a dog hanging out a car window, slobbering in anticipation of a free ice cream cone at Culver's.
I still think it would be hysterical to pull up at the drive thru with a person in a dog suit in the back seat, asking for a free cone. Or better yet, have that person sitting in the driver's seat.
"What the fuck? Where's my free cone? You gave that black lab in the car ahead of us a free cone!"
I believe the thinking is that talking dogs should be able to afford their own cone. And that's tough logic to argue with.
O'Butter: I figured you weren't questioning my use of the word "imputed" because my English is impeccable. I thought you were channeling Zoe with the rant. If I can get the dog suit thing done, I'll post a video.
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