Space clerk!
Omigosh, omigosh! Remember that game I was playing before I bought the VR headset? The one I liked? The one that boils down to an inventory management game? I did not realize – they released a free patch to make it compatible with VR. I’m managing my spaceship inventory with my own hands, y’all!
I got talking to a young family on vacation in town today. Parents and three little kids. Mom was holding the lead of a dog – I think it might have been a Labrador. I am not good with dogs. Big handsome beast.
Anyway, the kids were crawling all over him and he was lapping up the attention. I looked at the dog and said, “well, hello” and he went nuts – snapping and lunging.
The woman apologized and said, “you’ll have to excuse him – he was a lockdown puppy.”
She said he’s fine if you ignore him, but if you speak to him or make eye contact, or speak to her, he goes nuts. He has no idea how to sort out people who are a threat from people who are not. They have hope he will gentle down eventually, but this was the first time he was out and about around strangers and he was utterly lost and bewildered.
Now think what we’ve done to children.
April 4, 2022 — 5:31 pm
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