SS was with us the other evening. Granted whenever he comes back from his Dad’s for just a short spurt he is a little high strung. I do my best to just fade in the background and let DW and SS do all the interaction, because SS gets a little….urm…weird.

DW left momentarily to pick the kids up from daycare leaving me alone with SS. I was busy cooking dinner and SS was busy entertaining himself. I walk from the hallway to the kitchen and catch a glipse of SS in the living room. He is on the floor on all fours and is coaxing the family dog to get behind him.

I should have left well enough alone but curiosity got the better of me.

Me: “SS? What are you doing?”

SS: “I am trying to get the dog to sniff my butt.”

Me: “Uh….Why?”

SS: “Cuz it’s funny!”

You know, I may have done some weird things in my day, but when it came to dogs, I thought getting dogs to beg, roll over and play dead was the extent of that comic relief. Oh sure, now days you have YouTube video’s out there of dogs skate boarding and saying “I RUV YOU!” to the delight of the person video taping the talented canine.

But despite my despair over the vast difference between what I think is funny and what SS thinks is funny when it comes to dogs, my immediate thoughts come to this site and about how I can write this incident without being accused of demeaning this poor boy who is trying to set himself up for a comedy sketch that not even the family dog wants a part of.

“Comon boy! Comon! Smell my butt!” SS continues to persist, twisting his body in such a way to give the confused animal an ideal angle from its nose to SS’s posterior.

I should have left well enough alone. I should have just walked away,…In retrospect, I should have.

“Did someone teach you to do this?” I asked hopefully. Surely this act of comedy gold must have been inspired from something, or someone else.

“Nope.” SS says while he continues to coax the dog.

“Well SS, I hate to interrupt your *ahem* pet project, but I don’t think what you are doing is appropriate.”

“Why? It’s funny!”

“SS, you’re scaring the dog!”

I don’t think the dog was scared. The dog had this helpless look on his face, as if he was trying to say Hey, I don’t know why he wants me to sniff his butt either, we already shook hands!