has anybody seen… a dog dyed dark green?

The Saturn’s battery died. We had no warning. Luckily it died at home, in the garage, but that meant that Doc had to get home from work via train, bus, and a one-mile walk. We’d hoped to get Roy to give us a jump start the next morning but he wasn’t home. We walked to the Auto Zone on the corner and bought a new battery and Doc toted it home (they’re godawfully heavy) and installed it himself. My hero!!

Today, stopped at a 7-11 on the way to go see The Day After Tomorrow (plot: holy crap, the world is freezing over, tasty little Jake Gyllenhaal and his dad still-hot Dennis Quaid must save the day!), and parked next to a white midsize midclass sedan with the windows down and blaring rap music, no driver. We came back out to the car with our sodas and a toy poodle the color of pink grapefruit started barking at us from the passenger seat. I was so tickled to see a bright pinkish-orange poodle that it didn’t even occur to me until it was too late to use my camera phone to take a picture, so this purple poodle photo I found online will have to do. Actually it didn’t occur to me at all, it occurred to Doc, but it was still too late, the owner had come out to her car. Now that I think about it, I probably could have asked the woman if I could take a little picture of her “cute” dog, but I didn’t think of that. What could possibly drive someone to dye their dog?? Or paint their dog’s toenails? Or tie their ears up with bows??? Or make them wear a freakin’ TUTU??