mentality of a dachshund owner

Delia and girls · March 28, 2008, 12:13:18 PM

After years of trying, Ron convinced me to put the bed in our spare bedroom in our room and sell our bed. The spare bedroom bed is nicer and newer, but it's not as high and we've caught Gretchen on it. I didn't want to deal with that in our room. As we're tearing the beds down, my mind is trying to figure a way to make this bed taller. As we're putting the mattress on it, it comes to me. We have a mattress in the spare bedroom. Why not put it on this bed? After all, it's now just up against the wall. I mention it to Ron and he's telling me it would be way too high - beds weren't made to put 2 mattresses on them. How can it be too high when you have a dachshund with a bad back in the house? I have to see to believe. We drag this mattress BACK into our room and plop it on the bed. I'm staring at the bed and trying to get the words "Whose stupid idea was this?" out of my mouth but I know as soon as I open my mouth, all I'll be able to do is laugh. I can feel Ron staring at me and I can see him standing there with his arms across his chest out of the corner of my eye. I broke down and couldn't stop! Tears were rolling down my face. I would kind of get a hold of myself and either he would do or say something or I'd look at the bed and start all over. Among his comments...'She won't get up here. Heck, I need a ladder'...(as he's laying on it) 'It would be OK, just don't sit up or you'll get nailed by the ceiling fan.'

Barb · March 28, 2008, 12:17:11 PM

LOl - need a crew cut !?!?!?!?!!! Rudy and Brandy say that their mudder has a small step stool you can borrow.... :thinik:

Here is what you do..... start at the hall door and run and JUUUUUMP..... hopefully you will land on top - HAHAHAHA!!!! Hey where is the picture of the Princess and the Pea bed ?!?!?!?!?!?!

cheryl186 · March 28, 2008, 12:26:33 PM

HAHAHAHAHA

...I can relate to this soooo much.

Dee Dee and Hallie · March 28, 2008, 12:47:02 PM

LOL you need the visual!!! Can I post the picture??

Delia and girls · March 28, 2008, 01:06:53 PM

Sure, you can!

Dee Dee and Hallie · March 28, 2008, 01:09:32 PM

Here it is!

You should have taken one with you standing next to it LOL.

Delia and girls · March 28, 2008, 01:20:37 PM

LOL, Barb. You know how short I am. I would need one of those pole vault thingies!!!!

Cheryl, I knew you guys would find the humor in this!

Delia and girls · March 28, 2008, 01:22:19 PM

HAHAHA!!! You're right! I didn't think of that! Oh, well...too late...bed is back down to normal...was afraid of that ceiling fan comment from Ron and the thin air up there!

Roberta · March 28, 2008, 01:45:54 PM

also what comes to mind is the princess and the pea fairy story.

Don't think it will work as a macketing tool.
Roberta

Barb · March 28, 2008, 02:54:45 PM

Hee Hee.... we could build you a ramp !!!! I like your wall color !

Doxherding Karen · March 28, 2008, 04:59:02 PM

Heck, you could have gotten a leg up on the footboard - alley ooop!! LOL!

Karen

Dee Dee and Hallie · March 28, 2008, 05:10:15 PM

I'm picturing a mini trampoline at the foot of the bed.... cowabunga!

Mike · March 28, 2008, 05:24:13 PM

Quote from: Dee Dee and Hallie on March 28, 2008, 05:10:15 PM
I'm picturing a mini trampoline at the foot of the bed.... cowabunga!

That is just a bit too much visual in the TMI area....

sollysmom · March 28, 2008, 07:11:20 PM

You were right! You wouldn't have to worry about Gretchen getting up there!! HA!

Darcel

Brekkesmom · March 29, 2008, 12:44:43 AM

Lol! Well, I can definitely attest to the comfort of that bed! Thanks again for giving me hospitality when Brekke and Sorcha and I came through Texas to get baby Mocha for Auntie Brenda! Ceiling fan - right!

Roberta · March 29, 2008, 04:26:32 AM

I have not laughed as much in long while, pray tell where does the matress's frill sit.................I can just picture the trampoline..........and what you explain in A&E

Roberta

Delia and girls · March 29, 2008, 04:26:41 PM

Roberta, I hadn't laughed so much in a long time. By frill, do you mean the bed skirt? There's one there, but you don't really see it for the mattresses. My original plan was to put a second one between the mattresses, but...I didn't get that far.

Ron said it was worth hauling that heavy mattress back and forth to see me laugh so hard. I now feel the need to post a finished version of the bed so you guys don't think I've totally lost it. I will, soon.

And Julia, you are welcome anytime. I'm glad it was comfortable for you.

DD, I kinda like the trampoline idea! A little aerobic jumping before bed! LOL! I bet Ron would learn to go to bed AFTER me, real quick!

Doxherding Karen · March 29, 2008, 07:34:54 PM

Quote from: Delia and girls on March 29, 2008, 04:26:41 PM
DD, I kinda like the trampoline idea! A little aerobic jumping before bed! LOL! I bet Ron would learn to go to bed AFTER me, real quick!

Do a "Greg Louganis" - balance on the metal footboard, bend at the knees and do a front one and a quarter tuck dive! A pike would probably cost you your Achilles tendons getting sliced by the fan, so go for the tuck!

Degree of difficulty 2.8 times execution: SHE'S GONE FOR THE GOLD MEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

("Oh, say, can you see. . . "

Come on everybody, chime in!!)

Karen

Mike · March 29, 2008, 07:39:19 PM

Quote from: Doxherding Karen on March 29, 2008, 07:34:54 PM
("Oh, say, can you see. . . " Come on everybody, chime in!!)

Her heels in the fan...

Doxherding Karen · March 29, 2008, 08:33:07 PM

I like your style, Mike! Are you a Gary Larson fan also?

Karen

DeeanDave · March 29, 2008, 08:40:38 PM

A good laugh, Delia! Thanks! Dee

Mike · March 29, 2008, 08:47:56 PM

Karen, I love Far Side. Years ago I was in Colorado on vacation and there was a Far Side exhibit at the Denver Museum of History. Every panel published to that point was there. People would be reading along the walls and suddenly starting screaming and we'd all look to remember where that spot was. My fav is the little wiener dog make espresso as the sun is coming up "what little hyper dogs do while their masters sleep".

Teresa · March 29, 2008, 09:31:51 PM

My husband says he can pick out a Far Side fan within a few seconds of being around them. He is usually pretty accurate. What is interesting is when he first started getting all the Gary Larson books, I would look at them and I thought they were okay, but nowhere near as hilarious as Randy did. Now, I find I laugh just about as much. The Wiener Dog Art is still my favorite, though (and we had the book before we had the wiener dog!).

Mike · March 30, 2008, 10:24:03 AM

OMG, I forgot about Wiener Dog Art!! Oh, and I find cows hysterically funny. So the meadow martini party was what first got me hooked on FS.

CAR!!!

Doxherding Karen · March 30, 2008, 12:00:38 PM

Who could ever forget circling Chicago several times for momentum???

What a classic book!!!

Karen

Roberta · March 31, 2008, 01:27:42 AM

Just had another giggle did you look where the side lights ended up.........................
Roberta
ps I love the far side but I do have a slightly warped sense of humour.........

Beth · March 31, 2008, 08:37:36 AM

Quote from: Mike on March 29, 2008, 08:47:56 PM
My fav is the little wiener dog make espresso as the sun is coming up "what little hyper dogs do while their masters sleep".

OMG, Mike, that's my favorite one too! My dad ripped that page out of his day-by-day calendar one year and sent it to me in college. I've kept it on my fridge ever since! I would love to find or make a coffee mug out of that picture!

I also love the cows. When I was about 11 and we first started going up to our cottage at the lake, my dad would joke about the cows that we would drive by, saying that we just missed them standing up talking to one another. That year, my dad framed that cartoon for my stepmom and gave it to her for her birthday. To this day, it hangs in their house. And for my dad's birthday that year, we got him a coffee mug with "The Nerd Herd" on it: four nerdy looking cows named "Barbi-Q, Ground Chuck, All-Beef Patty....oooh, I can't remember the last one! LOL!

CAR!!!

auntydoxzz · April 01, 2008, 05:25:09 PM

AT least you did not end up with an ATTACK mattress. When I visited Merion, the bed has a really really hard mattress and so I brought along a air mattress I had gotten on close out at Target. As we were putting in on the bed, I kept saying, I don't think this is going to work. IT was a high bed to start with, and it was almost impossible to climb onto it. Also being an air mattress, it was shall we say not very stable!!! She said it was on, it was late and it was staying on there. Me like a dummy did not argue!!

I told merion if she heard a scream or a crash she better come help me. Well she left for the dog show before I did because she had to do some stuff for the show. Shortly after she left, I tried to shift my weight, and the next thing I knew i was ON THE FLOOR(which was a teeny aisle between the dresser and bed). Actually the mattress was more or less on top of me(sure was thankful it was an air one, or I woulda been stuck there for hours. There was so little room I litterally had to inchworm myself down the length of the bed to the bottom of the frame, where thankfully there was enough room to at least get off my side!

Due to the arthritis in my one leg, kneeling is not possible, and I am not quite sure How I managed to drag myself up. Sadly by the time I got to the show Zena had already been in the ring. For some reason I was not walking too well(the foot that slammed into the one dresser sorta hurt, along with shoulder, hips, etc. ).

Although I use an air mattress on my regular bed, have had NO temptation to use that same mattress just in case it is somehow jinxed.

Bottom line, when you try to fix a bed, and add a mattress on top of another one, you may get something you are not expecting!!

Auntydoxzz

doxiedoodad · April 06, 2008, 11:05:29 PM

I have always been more of a listener then a gabber. So I start reading the thread and my chuckles turned into guffaws.
Karen and Mike aka "Dean and Jerry"
I roared when I read your 'heels in the fan' bit so much that I startled McGuinn who awoke and rolled over on the sofa and promptly knocked over my ice tea and McGwire was on the floor under my tray table, he got drenched, did the wet doggy shake and decided to bark to beat the band. McGuinn now wide awake began lapping up the tea off the leather sofa. I am scrambling to get up, clean up, put my notebook puter somewhere dry, tilted the tray table so the rest of the tea poured on the front of my jeans. The doorbell rings. (a neighbor) and I look like a man who forgot his depends. Except I didn't realize it until I watched the neighbor's eyes look at my crotch. The dogs are barking, tea is staining and he is asking if I would be interested in another dog!
Some comedic warning might help next time!

PS
My one of my favorite G. Larson's is a lizard wth some empty leashes
here are my others

Mike · April 07, 2008, 05:22:39 AM

Well, doxiedoo dad (or is it doxiedood ad?), your shtick had me envisioning an I love Lucy episode. We should take our collective show on the road. And now folks, please welcome the crazy people who obey wienerdogs (cue the applause please)...

doxiedoodad · April 07, 2008, 07:03:14 AM

Mike,
I use doodad and thingamajig to shake things up a bit at work. Engineers take their tech jargon a little too seriously. And since I am the boss, I can get a way with it. It's a real ice breaker in serious non presentation meetings. Everyone laughs. Before I joined this group, I thought I was the only one who sat at my drafting table thinking "I wonder what my boys are doing?" Yeah, I got the doxie fever.
doxie doodad

Teresa · April 07, 2008, 08:06:53 AM

I ended up staying home today after a long night with a migraine/sinus headache. This last laugh was just what I needed. Doxiedoodad, I hope you decided to gab more often. We can use more of your humor. We have quite a few that are willing to provide comic relief-Leslie does a good job without trying, too-but, as they always say, "The more the merrier!".