Is it any wonder that I have days when I get distressed? I\u2019m just a normal sort of guy minding his own business. The problem is that when the washing machine moves on to its spin cycle, it can get just a little bit enthusiastic. Yesterday it was having a little dance, which is fair enough. The problem was that it kept moving against the wall and the cuckoo clock is on the other side. The cuckoo clock stopped some weeks ago because our Mistress forgets to wind it, but quite of its own accord it decided to join in with the washing machine. For a while you got the noises of \u2018thud thud cuckoo, thud thud cuckoo\u2019. Given that our Mistress had got it into her head to wash a number of rugs that apparently it was our fault were dirty, you can imagine how scatty I was starting to be by the end of it all. She\u2019d be better to just invite the local wildlife to move in for real and have done with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now to be fair, I was happy with the mud and dog hair on the rugs just the way they were and didn\u2019t especially think they needed washing in the first place. Humans have a real thing about stuff like that. It wasn\u2019t me that got yellow dye from a towel all over the bathroom rug, although it was my ear that was being washed and wiped at the time so I guess I might have to take some responsibility. There we go again, \u2018thud thud cuckoo\u2019. I\u2019m going to be hearing that in my sleep for weeks the way it\u2019s going. I\u2019m just a simple soul who likes everything to be quiet and peaceful. I did bark my way over some of the \u2018thuds\u2019 and quite a number of the \u2018cuckoos\u2019 but I had to block them out somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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