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When did you realize that you no longer had an office chair? Around eight years ago, when Dylan joined our family. The chair, when we got it originally was in the living room of our first Maryland House. When we moved to our new house, we decided to move the chair to the office in the basement. In our first Maryland house, I had a corner of the basement (we filled the room in the basement with pictures we never unpacked. We leased the first house in Maryland to see where we wanted to end up. We ended up buying the second house and moving into that one around two years after moving to Maryland. Anyway, the day that chair appeared in my office, it was lost.

I am lost to Labs. Although, fun thing, the Lab being printed in the middle picture has never stolen my chair. The other two have taken the chair. In the morning, they often race down to be the first in the chair. It is kind of funny but, only from the big picture perspective, that the dogs love that chair. I know partially they like the chair because it is in my office. They like it partly because it smells like me. But honestly, in terms of where it is in the office, it isn’t optimally located for guard dogs to operate. It is away from the door in a quiet corner of the house. My gut is during storms. They do like that corner of my office as it is softer than the rest of the basement.

Funny how sometimes when you find a picture, it takes you on a journey. Or they take you on a trip, a wander between the bytes a wander in the pixels. Each image has a split instant of time captured. Some, like these three, were shot with intent. The first and third pictures intended to reveal how lazy labs are. Or that my chair was lost. The middle picture was part of a series of photos I took of 3d printing objects. As we wander the pictures, we find different moments and different images. But all pictures have one bit of uniformity in that they exist. They are a focused instant, a sliver of light. We will end today with that, though, the sliver of time presented like a picture.

This work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental (unless explicitly mentioned by name.)

a seat stealing lab

  1. I had a lab-husky and I would never ever call her lazy. I would say that they know how to get what they want and your dogs do that. I suppose if you put another chair there they would take that too. So, how can you beat them to the chair? Can you sleep in it or what?

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          • My, if I tell another one too soon, I will get as bad a reputation as you for telling bad jokes then.

            Or after that first one, maybe I already have!

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          • I was thinking that your use of “dad” there was a typo, but I see that you used it again now, so I looked it up on google.

            It’s a type of joke, a cringe-worthy joke, overused, and overtold, by an older man, a balding father, in a punny way.

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          • This is a “Dad” joke, that throws more than just caution to the wind, with another type of wind too, but which was no win for the Dad, here either, who whinged about it to his mate.

            Dave had a mate called Mark, who had a young son, named John.

            One day, he was driving past Mark’s house, when feeling the need to go the toilet, he urgently knocked on Mark’s door.

            Mark opened the door, and Dave made a beeline for the toilet, knowing exactly where it was, having been there many times before.

            Greatly relieved after this outburst, Dave, came into the lounge-room, where Mark was watching the football, on his screen.

            “Where’s your John, Mark?”,

            Dave said, as he hadn’t seen Mark’s young son around, since he had arrived, and who usually sat on his Dad’s lap, watching the game with him, every time that it was on.

            Mark turned around, quickly, and he replied, abruptly:

            “Yeh, it probably is now Dave, after that last explosive deposit of yours.”

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          • Did you get to the end of that long joke?

            I should have just used the shorter versions instead, I suppose.

            Dave asks his friend, Mark, because he wants to go to the toilet. (Whose son, John, is a bit older this time)

            “Where’s your John, Mark?”

            Mark replies:

            “He’s outside cutting the lawn.”

            Or, this version.

            Mark can’t see his young son around the house, so he asks his wife:

            “Where’s our John, dear? ”

            “Why, it’s right next to our bathroom, where it’s always been dear.”

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        • that is a classic joke. I’ve not heard it before. But it does fit the genre perfectly.

          the intent of Dad jokes is two-fold, the first is to point something out to the listener (in the case of this joke it is the clear ribbing of two friends).

          the second part of a dad joke is the play on words. This one captures that perfectly with the son john, and the English version of the Loo, john or bathroom!

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  1. Oh the famous chair stealers. I know all about them and I have one more to add, my cat Runt. He does not steal outright. Rather he approaches you, starts meowing then tapping your leg or your arm. You think he is hungry and get up to add kibbles to his bowl. But lo and behold he just jumps on your seating area and then goes to sleep and does not want to be disturbed. So there you go, you just lost your seat for the whole day… oh well such is life and it is quite funny…

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