Tuesday, January 27, 2009

In Which I Make an Honest Mistake

Once, when I was in the Army, my neighbor asked me to watch his condo while he went out of town for a few weeks. Pick up the mail, water the plants, that sort of thing.

No problem, I say.

About two weeks later he calls me to see how things are going and then he says, "By the way, how's Miles ?"

Miles?

That would be the hamster he forgot to mention.

Miles was dead.

My bad.

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