Cute as he is, that isn’t going to fly, so I tried to catch him and chased him a little until he wound up in the half bath, a dead end.   I went in and tried to drop a bucket on him, but that didn’t work out so well, so I decided to go for plan b, bring in a professional.

I rounded up the only one of the two cats that has actually caught a mouse and tossed him in the bathroom, then shut the door.

A few minutes later, and it’s awfully quiet in there, I was expecting some scrambling, some Acme brand explosives, some sort of noise, but nothing.

So I opened the door and out wanders the cat.   The mouse?  Safely in the corner.   I have no idea if the cat even noticed there was a plaything in there.

A few hours later and I’m in for a break from the torch, and the mouse?  Has escaped, and I think peed in the bathroom for good measure.

Useless cats.

But that doesn’t mean that they have to be asses.

I took my oldest in for a dental cleaning this morning, it went well as a 4 year old’s dental cleaning can be expected and the I booked him another appointment.

Given he’s in pre-school in the mornings now and I a) find that vastly more important than his dental visit and b) am paying actual money to have him in those pre-school classes, I’m hesitant to pull him out of them early for other activities.   The school’s dedicated time to teach him, we committed to time for him to be there, screw you third party.

So I was a bit taken aback when the pinched face blonde behind the counter gave me “well they usually prefer to do the younger patients in the morning” line and pushed me into an early morning appointment instead of the afternoon one I requested.

Irritated, several hours later I called back and instead asked for an afternoon appointment.  Worse comes to worse I could get him a morning appointment on a morning he doesn’t have school, but he’ll be 4 day in the fall, so I’d rather just get it in the afternoon.

Again, I get “well Dr. ____ usually prefers to do the younger patients in the morning but…”   and I got an early afternoon appointment.

Let me share a secret with you, Mr. Dentist man.

Ready?  Move closer….

IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU.

See that right there?  Simple truth.  You’re treating a human being, I’m sorry if I’m impeding your tee time or your drug rep time.  But my son’s a human being, and as his father I’m charged with setting priorities that help HIM, not you.

I put his education before other things, and if you don’t like it, there’s a whole phone book full of other dentists trying to pay off their student loans.

OK, off my soap box for a little while.

Recently a filed a complaint regarding a chimney sweep company violating
the do not call list rules and I received back a very nice form letter
explaining that the AG does nothing to actually enforce this law, but
I'm more than welcome to go ahead and sue if I want.

I was curious, is there a list online somewhere of other state rules,
statutes, etc that the AG's office doesn't enforce?  I was thinking a
crime spree might be fun, but I wanted to make sure I was breaking the
"wink wink" laws and not something that'll actually get some action.

Thanks!

Hmm..I guess I should have checked the grammar.  Oh well, I’m a budding Maddof, I don’t need no stinkin’ grammar!

But it occurred to me, why not invite along my local representatives, Paul Frost, and Mike Moore, too?  I mean they’re nice folks, maybe they’d like to go freely looting and pillaging too since they’re busy crafting laws all day.  So being the good natured fellow I am, I invited them

I thought you guys might like to see this too.  Given I’ve gotten two chimney sweep company calls today, I got a little fed up so I shot this over to the AG’s office.

I’ll let you know if we can go looting or pillaging somewhere.  I’m hoping there are some good tax fraud laws I can safely partake of!  Ugh.

If you’re the curious sort, here’s what I got back from the AG’s folks.