Yeah, it’s not a perfect fix, but it definitely lowers the temperature around strangers.
On a side note, I was going to add a joking post, but then AI did this. I think it’s funnier not to explain it.
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I do, honestly. Like the others have said, not all dogs are as friendly as Louie. And there are people who are genuinely terrified of dogs.
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I didn’t want to leave this unrecognized. That’s really good. I’m happy for both of you. 
I think so
I am not really good at reading body language of humans, much less of dogs. That would really scare me.
Just because a dog is friendly to most people, doesn’t guarantee that the dog will be friendly towards me.
And even if the dog is truly friendly, I don’t want to be touched by an animal I’m not familiar with. You take good care of your dog, but if I were to encounter a stranger with a dog on the trail, I wouldn’t know if the dog had fleas or ticks. Also, even the most well taken care of dog that go outside regularly will have very dirty paws and mouths (humans too, which is why I don’t accept being kissed)
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Thank you! I would put it in share your wins, but honestly I’ve been working with this woman for years now. She’s so agoraphobic that any entrance into a public space is celebrated in my office. The course she’s taking is online to start, but there will be an in-person component eventually. The mom is doing it and suggested they do it together, which has my patient doing it with her security-blanket-person (who has also, over time, been an enabler). The patient did online college classes a couple of years ago and got all A’s, but found the whole thing unbearably anxiety-producing and stopped. It makes sense to try it now with her mom, who is going to need help with the computer and course work, so a very symbiotic arrangement - my person can learn by teaching. All through our session, talking about it, she kept saying “that’s what my mom said,” and I kept saying “I know! That’s what we ALL say! Your mom, your sister, and I’m sure if we asked your primary care doctor, registered dietician, and endocrinologist - everyone!” As she left I begged her not to immediately go into the weird fugue state she seems to inhabit, where our conversations just sort of evaporate and the good ideas she feels she would be able to try are forgotten. So a few minutes after she’d gone yesterday I sent a text that said “REMINDER: Do the class with your mom.” Which is what her texts reference.
I suppose it pisses me off that change is so slow (like, YEARS, and our biggest successes are measured in teeny-tiny baby increments) (I want her to say “hi” to the super-sweet nursing home activities guy who has the hour before her, who cracks the residents up by impersonating Elvis despite looking nothing like him) (but there are HIPAA considerations in asking him to say hi, and her body language is…like…violent trembling with her hair draped down over her face, so he never has before).
So yeah. Work, huh? @doogie maybe I’m the crazy person at work.
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It only cost you that much if you buy it
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I did not.
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$26 a pound!? I should go into the chicken salad business.
Yeah, why not? Why get upset if people are paying it? By all means, get a commercial kitchen, roast chickens, break them down and sell them as chicken salad at whatever god awful price that is?
Go!
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You seem to get upset when other people get upset at stuff.
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Maybe.
But I am not upset at all. You might be upset about paying $26 a pound for chicken salad.
Don’t buy it.
Pretty simple.
I can skip the cooking and just buy the chickens pre roasted.
Slicing the grapes would be the hard part.
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Pretty Slick!
I can use that technique for tonight’s salad too.
Thanks!
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You can skip the roasting and just sell the chicken salad as the new “weight loss version”
Results faster than Ozempic!
You’re like my brother from another mother. And continent. And not the ones I already have. They’re cool, but they’re not “tips on slicing little round things” cool.
Cuz these are my tomatoes.
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Ok. So heres what pisses me off.
A Tier 3 child molester has moved into the neighborhood and lives in direct line of sight (about 60 or so feet) of the kids school bus stop. A bus stop that has 3 kids that are matches for the type of offense commited, statutory sexual assault- on a victim greater than 11, less than 16.
It also pisses me off that I was alerted to his presence by a neighbor who strongly recommended looking at the Megans Law web site.
Yesterday I saw him when he came out to watch the kids get off the bus. I got jolted with adrenalin and agression.
I spoke with the local police today. The cop (Sgt.) Dont know nothin about it. So I told him. Once he knew, he figured- Can’t do nothin about it.
So I pointed out the negligence of their lack of action informing the community and school district of this top tier, most serious sex offender.
So he called me back later to inform me that I was wrong about that.
So now I have to fight the cops too.
And I went about 28 hours yesterday & today on the laser focus & rage building inside of me. But I did get a few this afternoon.
So, yeah. I’m fucking pissed.
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