"Can you run home to check on the dog?" means "Can you run home sometime in the middle of the afternoon from your place of employment to our home, which is five minutes from where YOU work (by design) to check on the dog, who had vicious diarrhea this morning?", not "It can just wait until I get home from my job, which is an hour away, to find a white carpet with beautiful spray patterns of Hershey squirts all over it, in all different parts of the house, because the dog, in his valiant effort to be 'good' and not make a mess, just walked it all over the house, because of the fact that you left an entire loaf of whole wheat bread on the edge of the counter for the jillionth time, which the dog naturally jumped up and ate, and now he has all the fiber he needs for the rest of his goddamn life compacted into one wonderful serving."
That's rough, Bakerstarter. Just to empathize, I can't be undead soccer player tonight since I've remembered that the cat shit on my mesh shorts last week.
Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human sign language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. (AP)
Washoe's last sign was a paw on her chest signaling a massive heart attack.
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