B
Yeah. Okay.
A
I work for a university, and I went to, uh, Omaha, Nebraska to recruit students, and I had some time off in the afternoon, so I went to a, a pet shop, and I saw these little Springer Spaniels --
B
Um.
A
-- and so I decided, well, you know, this would really be a nice dog to have, so, when I got back home to Carney, Nebraska, I told my wife about it, and I said, You know, this is just a, I, I, I can just hear the dog crying for me now.
B
I know what you mean.
A
And Christmas is coming up, hint, hint, and so, I had to go back the next week, as well as a bunch of other people from the university, and one of the people, uh, that we went with, uh, they were friends of ours, and so, we got to Omaha, and I decided I'd take my friend over and show him the dog, and so I got over there, and she said, Oh, that's too bad, the dog has already been sold. And I didn't realize it, but this guy had somehow worked it out so that he got there a little bit earlier, bought the dog, and she was in the back room, and so that night we had a reception for some of the, uh, potential high school students or college students, and, and, uh, he had the dog the whole time in his room, and, and I had no idea. And so we headed back to Carney that night, and the dog rode in the car and we stopped along the way and had a bite to eat and they left the dog in the car, and I guess while we were inside eating, Thumper just tore the heck out of the inside of the car, and, uh, finally we made it back to, uh, to Carney and,