I don't think it ever would occur to me to kiss a pet.
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Hil R. - Feb 01, 2005 6:52:59 pm PST #3071 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Scrappy - Feb 01, 2005 6:54:17 pm PST #3072 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I kiss my cats on the head all the time. I thought everybody did that.
Allyson - Feb 01, 2005 6:54:36 pm PST #3073 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I kiss Ruby ALL THE TIME.
DebetEsse - Feb 01, 2005 6:55:07 pm PST #3074 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Me, too. Cats and dogs (though not all of either that we have.)
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 6:55:27 pm PST #3075 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But you just explained your weird pet thing, growing up.
This isn't about my weird pet thing -- this is not only an entire country, but most of the black Americans I've polled recoil the same way and call pet kissing a white thing.
And, it's not just black folk.
Hil R. - Feb 01, 2005 6:56:19 pm PST #3076 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hmm. The only pets I ever had as a kid were hermit crabs.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2005 6:58:19 pm PST #3077 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Also -- that "weird pet thing" isn't so much a weird thing, as an animal as utility thing. Kissing work animals is ... probably not so common. They were work animals we liked and played with, but still guard dogs.
Jesse - Feb 01, 2005 6:59:07 pm PST #3078 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Crap, I'm still up.
Anyway, no, the person in my story didn't have pets, as far as I know.
Scrappy - Feb 01, 2005 7:02:01 pm PST #3079 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Europeans kiss and coddle pets, so it's not an Anerican thing. I think viewing animals as workers rather than companions, no matter what culture you're from is the key to how you treat them. The farmers in upstate NY where Jason's parents used to live don't kiss barn cats--often they don't even name them.
sumi - Feb 01, 2005 7:02:02 pm PST #3080 of 10002
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I kiss my cats all the time.