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"C'mon, Hunga, I love the park, too, but we can't lounge here all day, I have a shift in the kitchen coming up."
Mimi and Hunga padded back to the Six Sentence Cafe and Bistro, and Hunga, knowing in his doggy way Tom would have his after-park-time treat waiting, continued through the swinging door into the kitchen the moment they walked through the front door.
Mimi laughed to see him go, as did the Proprietor behind the bar, while a regular patron sitting at the bar smiled and observed, "They're like children, really, but not really -- they don't grow up to betray you, and they leave too soon, but children outlive you and often betray you, I wonder why that is.
Mimi looked thoughtful and said, "Our children, we teach them to live without us, it's not a betrayal when they move off and into the world, growing up and outliving us, raising their own. Pets, though, they're of a different species which wouldn't live the way we do if left to themselves, and since we teach them to live with us, it's best they go first though it hurts so much, as we really unfit them to be on their own."
"Maybe that's so," the patron mused, as Mimi went past to catch up with Hunga and Tom, and take over her kitchen duties.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Lounge.
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