The dog who ate my checks

It's Friday and not raining so time for something a bit more fun.  As some of you know, I had an incident last week where my dog rifled through my mail (because he was mad at me for leaving him for a full day), and ate all my checks I had to deposit.  Now, why he couldn't have eaten the bills is beyond me.  But we recently tallied up the destruction:

• Value of checks eaten: $350
• Storm door destroyed:  $400
• One hardback library book consumed: $20
• One lamp: $150
• Numerous missing socks and undergarments eaten or buried around the garden:  $20
• One wallet used for a chew toy: $0 (credit cards now have toothmarks; cash was mouthed but not consumed).
• One retractable leash: $24
• Mittens and gloves: $50
• Random gardening equipment (gloves, rakes, spades): $75
• One homework eating incident involving a math book:  $0 thanks to a dog-loving 3rd grade teacher.

However, as they say, watching my son's face light up when Brodie bounds up to greet him off the school bus:  Priceless.

 

Comments

[Nancy Loderick]

Diane, Thanks for my Friday laugh. This is a cute and funny story, but I'm sure you didn't see it that way when it first happened.

[Diane K. Danielson]

Nancy - I have to thank the people at Rockland Trust bank (who gamely deposited the bits of two checks taped together, and helped me look up routing numbers); and the accounting department at Indeed.com (our Job Board company) who only asked that I forward them a picture of the perpetrator, before issuing me a new check. I suppose they had to believe me, I mean, really ... who would make up a whopper like that?

[Natalie Corridan-Gregg]

GREAT post. I had a good chuckle. I thought having a toddler was expensive....you win!

[becky]

Funny - perhaps another nice perk about being able to take my guide dog everywhere with me!

[Wholesale Clothing]

I had a friend who got his pay check and gave to his wife on dining and by mistake that was trash - and this was something routine for them.

[Norbert Georget at Parenting Today's Teenager]

So Funny. Loved it. I'm going to share this with my wife. Thanks for the laugh. Made my day. Norbert Georget