A Moment at Joe's

While I was waiting to buy 3 personal pizzas and a tub of lemon meringue cookies at Trader Joes tonight, the couple in front of me was looking at the pet food display while waiting to buy their chickenless nuggets. The boyfriend joked about getting one of the prominently displayed chewy things for their dog. I think the blatant disgustingness of the chewy thing was the thrust of his joke. That concept, however, was completely lost on his girlfriend who started to cry and get snippy with him.

She told him that it was not appropriate to even joke about buying her dog something that contained meat, and if he ever did feed him meat, even if he thought it would be "funny," she would kill him. The boyfriend countered that the dog probably didn't have a vegetarian philosophy, but she was far too upset to let logic prevail. Her dog will NEVER eat meat.

Really, why buy a dog? Dogs are pretty carnivorous. It's like buying a chicken and being offended when someone offers it chicken feed. Or taking offence at offering a duck stale bread, or at offering me a tub of lemon meringue cookies. I’m very cookivorous.