![\"\"](\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/alfie03.13.05.2006.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIt would seem that the car has shrunk. Now my mistress\u2019s car wasn\u2019t large but we did both fit into it. I could sit facing forwards or sidewards quite comfortably. Now that the car has shrunk I can\u2019t lie facing forwards as I fall off the seat and my seatbelt is a bit restrictive for sitting up. So there is nothing else for it but to lie sideways which involves having my right front paw round the gear stick and my head on the handbrake. It wouldn\u2019t be too uncomfortable if my mistress could only learn to drive without changing gear. I have offered to do it for her but she says she would rather do it herself, some people are so ungrateful. Don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t offer. She is even starting to think she may have to change car just for me, although she also muttered something about going out and leaving me behind but I\u2019m sure she can\u2019t have meant that!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then this made me laugh from the following year. I do wish I\u2019d known Alfie when he was still a puppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do they not know how hurtful it can be, to come out with statements in an argument that they don\u2019t mean? The argument wasn\u2019t actually with me but she said \u201cIf that\u2019s how you are going to be, I\u2019m giving your sandwiches to the dog.\u201d In these circumstances you don\u2019t pick up on the fact that yet again you have been referred to as \u2018the\u2019 dog rather than \u2018our\u2019 dog, you simply get excited at the prospect of an additional portion of food and smoked salmon sandwiches at that. You run and stand by your bowl and the next thing you know is that they are laughing about it, kissing goodbye and your master is off to work carrying his sandwich box. Not only that, but the sandwiches are still in it. Oh that\u2019s just fine. No word of apology. No \u201cOh Alfie, let me make it up to you by giving you some of the chicken I was going to have for lunch\u201d, nothing, not a word. It really is too much for a dog to bear.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that\u2019s all from me for today. You\u2019ll be back in Aristotle\u2019s paws tomorrow while I get a weekend off. It\u2019s odd, but I quite like working so I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do with my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a9 2018 Rosemary J. Kind<\/p>\n\n\n\n All site content is subject to copyright and may not be reproduced without written permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2007<\/h2>\n\n\n\n