We take the dog for walks
along Main Street on Saturdays.
Shoppers stop and ask if they
may pet our chocolate lab. “Oh,
of course. We actually aren’t
dog lovers. We got him so people
would stop and talk to us. We
don’t have any friends.” They
look at us with cocked heads and
a quizzical look on their faces
and then say, “Oh, you are such a
kidder.” We then move on to the
next person who wants to pet the
dog and I wait to be called “The
Kidder.” Apparently, the dog
loves the attention.