I'll never forget the day I first saw him. We were driving home from Golden and Kathy said "Why don't you go this way?" We headed down a street I had never been on and found ourselves driving by a little strip mall. Then Kathy says "Turn in here a minute." Now my spidey senses are on alert, and sure enough, we wind up parking in front of a pet store. Kathy had been out in Golden a couple of days before and had found Hootie sitting in a cage looking so lonely. When we walked in, there was a sad little puppy up high in his own cage, with a sign that had 2 different prices crossed out and the third was pretty low. He had been taken and then returned to the pet store. I knew right then that we were heading home with another dog, I had been suckered! I still wasn't quite over the loss of our Golden Retriever, but I never do seem to get over the loss of a pet. Kathy knows that I need a replacement though, and seeing as we always have dogs in pairs, our
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ReplyDeleteMy father started out his work life as a mechanic and later electrician. He worked as a field engineer for IBM (i.e. he repaired computers), and ended up in management at Northern Trust bank. He said that he realized one day that Dilbert applied to his work life every single day. He retired after that.
Glad to Johnny, I have been in the computer biz for most of my life.
ReplyDeleteDilberts creator, Scott Adams, used to be an engineer at Pacific Bell telephone. It's where he gotmost of his early ideas.