re: #424 keithgabryelski

I don’t understand you nickname, maybe you can explain it to me.

But “infested” is a tough word. It seems like you have some deep anger for people that like Disney World, mountain biking, and have a kid who acted pretty stupidly by threatening your dog, but kids do stupid things every day.

Are you seriously that dense? For the time being, I will assume you guilty of nothing more than benign ignorance.

I live in Northern Virginia. It is called wahabicorridor for a reason. I would recommend a book that will educate you.

Infiltration

As for my dog - well, before we brought her home I went to all the families in the ‘hood who had children to ask if we could arrange surpervised interactions with their kids, because I wanted her to be properly socialized w/children. The only household that said No was Ali’s. Unless they were working dogs, he explained, they were unclean and forbidden. Okey, dokey, fine with me. They lived in the house right next door so I was very conscious of the rules (which were, I might add, quite different from the Muslim family down the street from Jordan, who just went wild about the thought of a puppy they could play with).

And one day, when The Fat Beagle was about 14 mos old, his sons swarmed her as my husband was bringing her home from a walk. They deliberately and maliciously frightened her, including throwing stones. My husband picked her up and yelled at them to stop, so they threw mulch and stones at him. The Fat Beagle ran to me when my husband got into the house, trembling with fear, and would not leave my arms for a solid 30 minutes.

And that’s when I put the fear of Allah in Ali.

Disneyland my ass.

Is there an afterlife?
Fuck with my dog/family and find out.