Be careful what you call your dog!

Today I needed the truck, so I rode with Chris to drop him off at work and will pick him up later when he is off. Bodhi and Bella get to ride with us on these mornings and I allowed Bella to sit on my lap on the passenger side. I know that isn't the best way for her to travel but I do it sometimes. She gets to view her domain. Bodhi just likes to lay down and be with her pack.

This morning I had my black yoga pants on, a gray shirt and grabbed my light black jacket. Then of course I was wearing dark sunglasses as the sun was definitely out in full force. Standard dress for a woman barely awake and a little chilly with the air conditioner on.

We chatted on the way as I noted how attentive Bella was to everything we passed. As we neared the military gate entry, I patted Bella on the head and spoke softly that she needed to keep her cool. Last time she gave out little barks at the guard looking at Chris's ID to allow us on base so I wanted to try to eliminate that this time. We are moving to Australia and will be leaving downtown so I am attempting to curve her behavior.

Previously, Chris would always show his retired military ID and the gate guards would always salute him since he is a retired officer. Lately, Chris has been just showing his contractor ID and here at this base, they do not normally ask for my ID. It seems to be different at every base.

But today was much more interesting.....

Bella is a Jack Russell Terrier and we have teased on many occasions that she is a Jack Russell "Terrorist" because of her very aggressive bullying of Bodhi. Bodhi normally handles her well and will stop her bullying when Bodhi has had enough. We joke about it and have even used the term Terrorist to describe her such as saying "yeah, we have a little J R terrorist but we still love her".....

So we pull up, Chris hands the guard his contractor ID, and of course Bella lets out a little bark. I pet her while at the same time Chris says to the guard, "Yeah, she's a terrorist".

Then of course, the guard looks at me, then at Chris and asks...."Do you have another ID"?.....Then he asks me for mine while he says....."Do either of you have a retired military ID"?

I hand him mine and he lets us through.

Then it occurred to me......Did he think Chris was referring to Bella or ME? LOL....

I look at my side mirror and I see a blond with dark clothing and dark sun glasses! Then I giggle to Chris that maybe we should not call Bella a Terrorist anymore and maybe I should wear more colors.

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3_15_2018

Guess what? Matt Damon is moving to Australia to...Chris will be so happy

Byron Bay, New South Wales

Tweety Bird

He knows. MD will be 5 hours away.

Will probably never see him

Hahahahaha

Tweety Bird

But we will invite him over for beers and shrimp on the Barbie. Then maybe proselytize home to the right

I will have to tell u one day about our adventure with a bag boy in a grocery store

Tweety Bird

oh....?

He was trying his best to get past me to speak to Em and I wasn’t even aware that was what he was doing...Em and I really had a laugh over that

Tweety Bird

Did you keep talking to him? Or did you just trip him?

Neither...he was bagging and told me he would take my stuff out

I told him that’s ok, em can take it out

Then on and on about how he needed to take them

Tweety Bird

Oh.....so what did you do? Let him take them?

And I even told him look...we have a pit bull with us today, you don’t need to be opening the back of that SUV

Tweety the shopping cart back in

So I relented as long as he let em open the back and he handed her the stuff

Tweety Bird

At least he is the working kind

and he called you maa

It didn’t even hit this old granny that he really just wanted to talk with em until I was at the door and they were just chatting away

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well.....I bet you won't miss those cues next tim

Nope