puppy at youth group

Sunday, Jul. 08, 2007 | 8:06 PM

well, a week later, i'm finally writing about youth group. there's no youth group today, so i have more time than i usually do on sundays.

i brought my puppy, bubble, because i kinda couldn't leave her at home. she's like a baby, and i didn't really have a babysitter. my mom was at work, and my dad was going to work after taking me to youth group. i don't even really trust my dad to watch her anyway.

i was a little late. it had been a very stressful, frustrating day. i walked in on melissa, joel, jordan, tim, nick, dave, and maybe others that i forgot. they were all, "you brought a puppy."

one of them asked, "what kinda of dog is that?"

"pomeranian," i said, "i couldn't leave her home."

as i sat down, melissa asked me, "do you think you could take her into a restaurant?"

"um..."

"because we're going out for pizza."

"oh."

wonderful. that just made my stressful, frustrating day that much better.

they all thought she was really cute, though, and they petted her and asked me many questions. she loved the attention.

as we were all walking out the door to get into the car, jordan asked, "are you bringing the dog?"

i just sorta stood there and looked at him. joel asked me, "what do you want to do?"

i don't think i had a lot of options. "what do you want me to do?" i said.

"i want you to do what you want to do."

what i wanted to do was go drown myself or something.

they decided that we'd go ahead and try taking her in, so off we went. they tried to make a sort of a wall in front of me as we walked in, and block the view of the dog. it didn't work though. someone working there saw her and said, "the dog has to stay outside."

i stopped and looked at him. i didn't know what to do or say. i was expecting that someone else might do or say something, but instead we all just kinda stood at looked at each other for a moment. it was extremely awkward, so just began walking toward the door. dave and joel came with me.

"do you mind leaving her in the car?" joel asked.

"well she'll probably poop in there and stuff," i said.

we weren't sure what to do. i felt terrible. i felt like i was being a burden to them, causing this silly problem. i said to joel, "now i feel bad."

"don't feel bad," he said, "we tried."

dave came up with the idea of putting her in a box, and went in to ask them for one. he poked holes in it with a key, and then we put her in there and left her in the car.

it seemed like we were inside the restaurant forever. i worried the whole time. i had visions of her getting out of the box, and making a mess of joel and melissa's nice new car. i never would forgive myself.

i listened to dave and jordan's conversation to ease my boredom and worrying. we were there for about an hour or so, i think, before we finally left. i was so nervous as we walked out to the car. i was so hoping that she would still be in the box. "it's the moment of truth," dave said, as we opened the car door.

i was extremely relieved to find her still in the box. she hadn't even done anything in the box, so there wasn't even a smell left behind. thank God.

we went back to the church, and just hung out for a while before people started leaving. i'd told them that i hadn't named her yet, and they tried to come up with one. melissa liked fox. at one point she asked joel what a good ajective for fox would be. first he said "swift." then he said "provocative."

yeah, provocative fox. that's a great name for a dog.

as they were leaving, i called my dad. we stood outside and waited, as melissa and joel and tim and nick stood around me, still asking me questions and stuff. it was probably the most i'd had to talk at youth group in a while.

so, it actually turned out ok. and i guess that's my story of last week's youth group.

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