Tard dans la vie
I heard this phrase in “White Lotus.” The fabulous, murdering gays spoke of Tanya blooming late in life.
I don’t know that Tanya ever bloomed. She really only wised up for 10 minutes out of two seasons.
Then she hit her head off a tender and her philandering husband inherited her half-billion-dollar fortune. Which partially went toward paying off the palazzo where she had one wild, coke-fueled night.
Isn’t that life, though? I spent all season pondering and researching all the symbolism, only to lose the plot when the heroine died a stupid, preventable death.
SPOILER: She literally foiled her own murder plot … and murdered the murderers … and fucking HIT HER HEAD as she left the boat.
I mean, not the dumbest bitch I’ve ever seen. But definitely in the top three.
Got me to thinking about how one stupid move can end you.
I have this creature I’ll call Barkley. Barkley was bark, bark, barking all day.
I speak bitch fluently, after four years of having my socials stalked and critted by one. So I can bark, bark, bark right on back.
My hope is that they will go find a dog house that’s not within my line of sight.
But they get rewarded with treats and rides in the car and free run of the house. So I don’t see Barkley getting re-homed.
Despite the pampering, Barkley runs half the other pups out of the house and chases the rest into the corner.
The medium and little dogs who haven’t been euthanized don’t like playing with Barkley. But they know it will get bored and go bully another pup soon enough.
This medium pup wonders if I’m going to get rabies by trying to play with this big dog. Or disembowled.
If I rub Barkley’s nose in its own poop, maybe it will stop lifting its leg on my porch. Or maybe it will lick enough poo-poo off its face that it will decide not to do that anymore.
It took me 30-ish years, but I’m finally sick enough of cleaning poo-poo that I’m going to throw it back.
There’s probably more power, and certainly less danger, in letting these dogs choke themselves on their chains.
But damn it feels good to give them a little yank.