Rant & Raves

Over the weekend, I sent Fluffy for grooming after coming back from hometown. Well, the place was usually crowded so I gave the groomer a call before dropping him there.

ME: “Hey, groomer? Adrian here. I am wondering if you have time for basic grooming?”
Groomer: “I am so sorry, today is very tight. Can you please make an appointment for tomorrow?”
ME: “Oh… hmm.. okay, that should not be a problem.”
Groomer: “By the way, what is your pet’s name?”
ME: “Fluffy.”
Groomer: “Oh! Fluffy ah? No problem! Just send him over anytime!”
No matter if I was the one who made the call, or Maria called, it’s always the same. When the groomer heard Fluffy’s name, he’ll be very delighted and always welcome him. So from now on, when we are going to call the groomer, we will just greet the groomer this way, “Hello! Groomer? Fluffy’s owner here……”

Anyway, I left him there with the groomer, and took the groomer’s dog (a Golden Retriever) out for a while, and later we went to Starbucks to wait for Fluffy. A lot of people came over and pat the Golden Retriever and we were just sitting there, playing a bit and a lot of patting.

Then, when it was time, I went back with the Golden Retriever to the groomer’s place to pick up Fluffy. Yes, after the bathing and basic clipping, he was all fluffy!

Then we went down to Starbucks again and this time, I bought coffee. I didn’t buy coffee because the Golden Retriever was so huge that it wasn’t nice to marge into the shop to order my drinks. But Fluffy is so small and I carried him so it was all good.

We sat down, and quickly a bunch of girls (I am taking a bet that they are maids from Indonesia because one of them told me she was from Jakarta) came over, and asked me, nicely, if they could hold Fluffy. I said OK, and handed him to them. They were playing, hugging, kissing him all over (And there I was, thinking “Shit, there goes his bathing session” because those girls were wearing heavy perfume and make-up) and one of them actually sat down and showed me the pic of her dogs (amazingly, she was using Motorola RZOR phone).

After that, their bus came so they rushed over to catch their bus. Not a minute later, there were two girls, nice looking girls, walked past and saw Fluffy. Instantly they stopped and started talking to Fluffy, patting him, scratching his ears (while he’s on my lap) and I was thinking, “Mahai, how come I don’t get this kind of treatment?”

The two girls stayed for about 3 minutes, and then they went off to meet their friend. Less than a minute later, a dude who worked at Starbucks came over, sat down, and asked me if he could hold Fluffy. Again, I passed him to the dude, and he was playing with him, holding him, patting him and all that.

I drank my coffee slowly, and then we left Starbucks, and headed to one of the stores because I need to buy something. When we walked past the girls (the two nice looking girls), they turned and tried to hold Fluffy’s hand and said, in a nice cuddling voice, “Bye bye Fluffy cutie.” (And again, I was thinking, “Mahai!!!!! How come no girl talked to me that way before!”) and we smiled (Okay, I smiled!) and headed to the store.

Fluffy is getting more attention than we all do. So yeah, I am thinking of sending him in for advertising and see how it goes. Hell, maybe he will make his first million than we do!