My dog is a terrorist.
Jeff Smith
National Director of Operations @ Stephen Oliver's Martial Arts Wealth Mastery | Coaching, Leadership
These days I mostly work from home.?? From a “mother-in-law” suite turned into a first floor office suite.?? That who working from home thing has become a challenge.
?Over the last couple of months one of my dogs has become a terrorist.?? The youngest of three, who’s a very energetic yellow lab has figured out that I spend much on my life with “death by zoom” as I’ve come to think of it.
Somehow Bodi (the yellow lab) has figured out that if he stands at my office door and, barks very loudly that he can black-mail me for treats.??
Luckily the very expensive Microphone Set-Up that I invested in for my desk doesn’t pick-up the dog barking in the back-ground instead of or on top of my voice.? It’s rather amazing how well it works, since the barking is loud enough to give me a headache and to overwhelm the audio from my meetings.
I’ve been working on re-training the terrorist by putting him in “time-out.”? He gets ejected to the greater outdoors (when it’s not freezing cold outside) or, to their private room (a storage room with dog beds) for an hour or so then gets let back out.?? So far, he seems to learn slowly and continues to hope to win the treats rather than time-out.
Oh well, all irritations with kids or pets become fond memories with time.?
So, MANY year’s from now I guess I’ll look back to the 80 lb dog barking at the top of his lungs as a fond memory.?? It’s certainly will take a bit.
It does remind me of many years of random questions, salesmen showing up unannounced, and unattended kids running into my office while trying to teach introductory classes or interrupting my enrollment conference.?? I guess skills well learned and very necessary.
So many funny stories from running schools over the years.
?One of my favorites is back when I was 21 ish and Charlie Lee was around 17.?? We were together running the Alexandria, Virginia Branch of the Jhoon Rhee Institute.
While sitting in an enrollment conference with a family with two kids a local vagrant came stumbling in.?? I’m guessing a schizophrenic, he stunk of alcohol and urine and for some unexplained reason was carrying a rusty pitchfork on his shoulder.
He managed to stumble into the classroom with my high-school age head-instructor teaching.?? Being quite concerned I managed to learn over and close “mini-blinds” that were on the office window so that my prospects couldn’t see what was going on and continued with my enrollment conference (we needed the enrollment to hit our numbers, after-all.)
I finished the enrollment (quite proud of myself) – ushered them out quickly careful to make sure they didn’t see what was going on in the classroom.? Then went to check on Charlie.
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Well, our vagrant was standing in the middle of the class.? He was mumbling to himself and as I recall urinating on himself while Charlie stared in shocked disbelief.
I of course, said to Charlie.? Hey, I got the enrollment – you get to handle this dude.
Well, it’s good to have developed the skills to stay on task and not get distracted by “urgent and unimportant” distractions.
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