Running Up The Glass

Today Romeo and I had a slight mishap. I think it had to do with his enormous trust in his pack leader, me. First thing In the morning, Romeo is always very excited to hop up into the back of my dog wagon right after peeing. Well, I decided to have him jump in the side door this morning and didn’t tell him before he ran off to go pee. When Romeo returned he sped up as he approached the back of the wagon. The fact that the hatch was not opened didn’t even give him pause in the least. If anything at all, he must have just thought “ Wow! I wonder how my leader is going to work this one out.” Then, as he leapt effortlessly toward the back window, he must have thought “Boy, Leader sure is cutting this one close. He sure is amazing. He can do anything.” I can only assume that gliding through the air inches from the window he didn’t even question my ability to work out this minor conundrum. How could he? He has been present for my multiple disappearing acts and making food appear out of nowhere twice a day! I felt a little bit evil as I watched Romeo trying, in vain to run up the window. It wasn’t my fault but damn it was funny! So then this poor dog that had just defined embarrassment looks at me as if to say, “Thank you for helping me learn how to run up glass but… why? What was your ever important purpose for teaching my the lost art of glass running, leader?”
I had no answer but acted as if I did. Then I said, “When you are supposed to understand, you’ll just know.” Then, happy as a clam, he hopped into the backseat and prepared for a long session of the “ try not to fall over sideways during the car ride” game.

Poor confused dog