Ruby’s story…………
You know when your out on a walk and you want to go one way and your walking companion wants to go the other, what do you do?
Do you discuss the options and weigh up the pros and cons of each? Do you decide that today you go your way and tomorrow you go their way? Do you be the bigger person, and let them have their own way? No, you do none of these things, what you do friends, is plonk yourself down, park your backside and refuse to move.
Me and mum always have this battle of wills if we’re out on a walk and she decides that she wants to go a different way to me. I sit down and don’t budge until she sees the error of her ways, and that I’m right.
Oh, she tries friends, she tries to wear me down, sometimes we’ve been at either end of the lead, backs turned refusing to move for over 10 mins, it’s almost like a stationary duel where no one is prepared to make the first move.
But, you’d think by now friends that mum would know me better than this, you’d think that she’d know that I am an expert in the art of stubborness, if I don’t want to go somewhere this backside is staying firmly planted and this girl ain’t for moving.
You see it’s all about the long game and I’m prepared to play it, she’ll get fed up soon and give in, and once again I will have proved to her that my way is the right way.
Mum’s story……..
Well yet again, what was turning out to be a lovely walk was halted by Ruby failing to realise who is in charge and flatly refusing to move unless we went where she wanted to go.
This happens on a regular basis, we can be walking along, I turn a corner and she doesn’t follow. I’ll turn around and she will just be standing staring at me. I give a little tug on the lead, and get nothing, I give some encouraging words, still nothing, I try try to reason with her, absolutely nothing, I even plead with her, and still nothing. So it quickly becomes a stand off.
She plonks herself down on one end of lead, I stand at the other still trying to encourage, still giving gentle tugs on the lead, I’m not going to let her win, she needs to know whose in charge here.
10 minutes later we are still here, there is just no budging her, she really is as stubborn as a mule and as strong as on ox, there is no moving this girl.
Well, there’s nothing else for it, I can’t stand here all day I’ve got things to do. Someone has to take charge of this situation, someone has to show leadership………. come on then Ruby, let’s go your way…….
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