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This past Monday, after a failed attempt to get Bug to take a nap, The Critters and I headed out the door to do our long overdue grocery shopping. Normally Bug and I take care of this chore while his sister’s in school, as she loathes accompanying me for this task, but it needed to be done or else we’d have been eating the dust bunnies and pretzel crumbs from under the furniture for dinner.
As we were getting into the car I opened Bug’s car door for him, attempting to lift him into his carseat when he said, “Come on, Home Dog.”
It stopped me in my tracks. “Did you just call me Home Dog?” I asked him incredulously.
“Yes,” he said. “Come on, Home Dog.”
“Where in the world did you learn to say that?” I asked him, looking over at Bear. “Did you teach him to say that?” I accused her.
“No, Mommy,” she clarified. “He’s saying the line from the book: ‘Come on home, dog’. You know? From his book Go Away, Dog?” she said as she shook her head at my stupidity.
And then I got it. He’d misplaced the comma in his sentence, turning a simple early reader book into ghetto street slang. Good thing there aren’t many gangs in these parts. (At least ones that speak English, anyway…)
Go Away Dog
written by Joan L Nodset*
“Go away, you bad old dog.
Go away from me.I don’t like you, dog.
I don’t like dogs at all.
Big dogs, little dogs.
Any dogs at all. ……Why don’t you go away?
You like me, don’t you
you old dog?
Well, I like you, too.
All right, I give up.Come on home, dog.
Come on, let’s run.”
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>That is so cute! I love how kids say something and they misplace commas, or word things in a different way that makes something sweet come out as something that makes us turn our heads. Kids are cute! Gotta love em.
Posted by potty training dogs | May 3, 2010, 01:33