Originally a happy thought, and still one I suppose, but with a surprising twist. My link is from an April 2023 report. The story showed up in my Apple News feed today, reported by Buzznet on Feb 7, 2024. It’s about a Doberman, who was rescued only 4 days before he was due to be put down for an aggressive past. 4 days after adoption, he saved the rescue family’s baby from a poisonous snake, being bitten and nearly dying in the process.
So what’s the surprising twist:
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Not mentioned by Buzznet, the incident is from 2007
Managed to get tickets to the nicest Carnival ball (Belmond Copacabana Palace Magic Ball) in Rio for tomorrow so that I can take the wife out kid-free for a nice black-tie formal evening.
Hadn’t heard about that before. Jackie Robinson gets so much press (and got far more severe abuse than that, but I’m not sure about issues with his teammates).
It’s so weird, but nice, being in a healthy relationship.
I screw something up, am profusely apologetic and he… accepts my apology and we both move on and have a super fantastic rest of the weekend. What? That can happen?!?!?! No pouting and sulking for 3 months???
I thought only the guy was allowed to have imperfections. I didn’t realize that I was permitted to have shortcomings too. (OK, not really, but basically every relationship I’ve ever been in has felt that way.)
your happy thought made me sad. I am so happy you feel appreciated, i am sad that it took to this point in your life to understand that is how life should be.
I’m in home depot and run into this short asian woman who says hello. I’m like, where in heck do I know you from? I know here, but cannot place her.
She runs the gas station in town. If she’d have said HELLOHOWYOUTODAAAAAY? I’d have pinned her down immediately.
Anyway, had quite a fun conversation. I asked her about her boys because I know they hated living in this small town. Two are optometrists. One’s working in Japan. The last one’s at home hoping to be a professional gamer. I said she must be quite proud. Turns out, not so much lol. No idea what she was expecting.
Anyway, it was a fun time having a chat. When I go to the gas station conversations are far more brief.
I would say that I understood it’s how things should be… it’s just never how they actually were. I probably normalized and tolerated too much in past relationships.
