Was having dinner with my friend the other day. I was seated outside Coffee Club and there was a narrow driveway from where I was seated. An Indian man was having a smoke on the curb beside the driveway, pet dog by his side. After his ciggie, he secured the dog leash onto a metal cover on the curb and strode into Coffee Club. HOW NICE.
My friend thought he had seen some friends inside and had went in to say 'hi'. Apparently that was not the case. He remained inside for the next 1.5 hours that I was there and never once came out to check on his dog nor give it water. From where I was seated, I could not even see the (damned) owner so it means the owner won't be able to see his dog too and keep an eye on it.
Meanwhile, the dog was trembling and constantly looking through the glass doors of Coffee Club hoping to catch a glimpse of his (lousy) owner. There was a constant stream of cars driving through the narrow driveway and a Lexus SUV had to drive very slowly when approaching the dog cos the dog was standing on the driveway, streching his leash to the max, straining his neck to look out for the (damned) owner. What kind of feeking owner is this mans... I was actually fantasing about releasing the dog and letting him run away lor...
Poor thing or not?
Some doggies however, are much luckier. Peanut was vomitting the whole of last wednesday and I cooked porridge to soothe his tummy and hand-fed him medicine.
Pic of said lucky doggie (and vomitus) below. Hee...
His good doggie life includes chicken jerky treats, vitamins and fresh fruits, Banana Walnut shampoo for sensitive skin, own rug for sleeping etc. Some dogs are just luckier eh?
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-its1.htm
ReplyDelete[Q] From Stephen P Goldman: “Can you shed light on the meaning and origin of it’s a dog’s life? Those of us over 50 seem to use to suggest the need to accept the existential fact that things are hard; but in the under-50 set, the idea is that dogs have it easy, and so it’s a dog’s life equates to ‘how cushy’!”
[A] It certainly seems that the phrase has become more ambiguous than it once was, though I’ve not come across many examples myself of its use as a description of a pampered existence. Most of our expressions that include dog are old enough to be based in times when dogs were not cosseted, but were kept as watchdogs or hunting animals, not as pets. They often weren’t allowed in the house, but were kept in kennels, fed scraps, worked hard, and often died young. So going to the dogs, dog tired, to die like a dog, dog’s dinner, dogsbody, dog eat dog, and a dog’s life all refer to a state of affairs best avoided. Specifically, a dog’s life is first recorded in the sixteenth century and seems to have remained in the language with the sense of “a life of misery, or of miserable subserviency” ever since. I’d hate to lose it myself.
Coffee Club doggie belongs to owner from medieval times while Peanut obviously belongs a modern day owner.
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