| Just spoke with ol'Muffin Thompson..you know, Poodle-Dad. Seems he is still reeling a bit from his trip to Missoula and the donning of the Pink Shirt. The God Father of Poodle Smoochers...seems to think something is amiss in Geritol Town. Apparently, someone emailed pictures of ol' Poodle-Dad, to the school secretary in Libby. The teachers have seen them, maybe even the girls on his softball team have seen Coach Thompson in all his Poodle-Smooching glory. Now that is pretty creative.. I am impressed, not only with the idea, but with the follow-through. Here is what I know, I gave the pictures of Deano, arf..arf..to Jeff, The Hacker Weaver, so he could post them on the website, because I don't yet know how to do that. Jeff posted. Thank you Jeff. Jeff also still has the pictures...I am imagining it is these same pictures that showed up on the secretary's desk. That makes Jeff a prime suspect. Speaking from personal experience, I let Jeff on my home computer once and the next thing I knew, a cut and paste picture of me with a poodle on my lap showed up on the website. Here is where it gets even more convoluted...James, has already hacked his way into the Libby School's computer base. He got on there, hacked the Dog Father's school picture and email address, did some cutting and pasting, and then virused his way onto Muffin's laptop..whoa! So there we have it....Jeff and James..go figure..everytime there is skullduggery going on, they are near by. I am a counselor and I sense that Deano is reeling. He is a proud man, he is an embarrassed man. He is a man who has not yet centered himself with how all of this pink shirt stuff went down. One game, he is Dean Thompson, proud husband, father of 3 beautiful human children, and winning softball coach. The next game he is forever THE ORIGINAL POODLE-DAD OF TEAM GERITOL. It all happened so quickly. He came late, he is a coach, he knows that is not cool, perhaps the coin was tossed a minute or two early, we took a team vote, we gave him choices, we did our best to support him during this self-defining time of identity crisis. One of Deano's primary defense mechanisms is to think he wasn't really late for the coin flip. Kind of like blaming us..and that's okay. We sense Deano will come to accept and perhaps even embrace this historical moment. We like Dean. He is important to us. How he feels is important to us. How he looks doesn't really matter..altho we have agreed, The Dog Father arf..arf..looks good in pink. We realize Poodle-Dad did not want to go down in Team Geritol history as the biological Father of Muffin, the hot-lipped, pink poodle. But history is history. It cannot be changed. Poodle-Dad has got to decide to get on with life...or not Come back to us Deano. We'll take good care of you. We'll help patch that hole that got poked in the bottom of your trust bucket.If it helps at all, my money is on a conspiracy..a co-conspiracy..Jeff and James. Sad thing is..they'll never tell. I think Deano even suspects me...I'd own up to if it was me. I'd be proud of even thinking of that idea. Talk to us Deano..talk to us...arf!! arf!! arf-arf-arf! That is Poodle-ese for "We love you man!" |
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